Introducing Hikae: Notes Kept for Later
Why I built a cross-platform bookmark manager backed by GitHub, and what it means to have a single capture-to-recall system that works everywhere without iCloud.
Tools
Command Center: One Dashboard for an IT Engineering Manager's Entire Workday
How I built a local web dashboard that aggregates Linear, Freshservice, Gmail, Google Calendar, CrowdStrike, and Claude into a single card-based interface, replacing a collection of browser tabs and one-off scripts.
MDMenuBar Is Now Beacon
What happened when a Markdown file previewer became my daily ops dashboard, and everything that changed along the way: a new name, a proper app bundle, URL source mode, alert integrations, and a bridge into a local web dashboard.
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.
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.
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.