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.

May 11, 2026 · 7 min · Matt Parker

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.

April 9, 2026 · 9 min · Matt Parker

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.

April 7, 2026 · 8 min · Matt Parker

Building a Personal Ops System on Top of the Claude CLI

How I built a multi-source daily review system that pulls from Linear, Freshservice, my calendar, git history, and session diaries — and uses Claude to synthesize it all into morning plans, end-of-day summaries, and weekly retrospectives.

March 20, 2026 · 10 min · Matt Parker