Pod Somm: Tracking Specialty Coffee with a Bookmarklet and a Lot of DOM Wrangling
How I built a personal coffee tracker for my xbloom studio, and why the interesting part was a bookmarklet that had to outsmart Cloudflare.
Project
Shikomi Six Months In: From Personal Tool to Conference Talk
How a script scaffolding tool grew from an interactive wizard into a full GitOps workflow, and what I learned presenting it at the Concord Software Developers meetup.
Prompted Pours: A Cocktail Catalog Built with AI
How I built a structured catalog of AI-generated cocktail recipes, and why the interesting part wasn’t the cocktails.
SIFS: Building a Custom Website for a 14-Year Film Club
How I built a static Hugo site to replace a patchwork of Letterboxd lists and spreadsheets for a film club that’s been meeting since 2011, and what it took to turn 14 years of emails into structured data.
MDMenuBar: A Native macOS Markdown Previewer That Lives in Your Menu Bar
Why I built a lightweight native Swift app to preview Markdown and HTML files from the menu bar, and what I learned writing a custom Markdown renderer without any dependencies.
Managing TestFlight with Bash and 1Password
How I built a TestFlight beta tester management tool that stores everything (including the private key) in 1Password, implements JWT authentication from scratch in bash, and grew from a simple CLI into a native SwiftDialog GUI app.
Sentinel: Building a CVE-Aware macOS Update System
How I built a two-component macOS update management system that ties CVE severity directly to deployment urgency, so users get accurate security context and admins get phased rollouts that automatically accelerate when it matters.
Moving Our Travel Blog from WordPress to Ghost
Why we left WordPress for Ghost, what it took to build a custom theme around geographic navigation, and how we automated deployments with the Ghost Admin API.
Introducing Shikomi: Mise en Place for macOS Automation
Why I built a script scaffolding tool for macOS device management, and what it means to start every project with the right foundation.