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Windows can tell me the power of some components, but not what the whole PC draws from the wall. JuiceBar is the tray app I built around that gap — measurement where possible, calibration where necessary, and an electricity bill instead of a watt number.
One RTX 4080 laptop and one Oracle Cloud VM, tied together over a Tailscale mesh, run my generative pipelines and internal tools. Here's what lives at home, what lives in the cloud, what's public, and what stays locked.
The real problem with trichotillomania is that you don't notice your hand going up — so I built Don't Touch, a webcam app that catches the moment.
A breathalyzer, a friend, and a fine for every missed reading kept me sober once. Now I'm building it properly: a sobriety app that donates your stake if you fail.
It started with a library book and became an AI pipeline that can't miss a crisis signal. My hardest question building HealFrame isn't technical — it's about legitimacy.
My LA rent jumped and I had no idea whether it was even legal, so I just paid. RentRights estimates which rent-control rules likely apply to a given address.
A roundup of the side projects I've poured out over the past few months, across wildly different domains — a short record of what I built and why.
Adding a CMS to this blog, the real question was which kind. I chose Keystatic on one rule — the source of truth never leaves my repo — plus its limits.
Three and a half months into life in the US, a record of a season spent receiving — and how reading The 48 Laws of Power made it clearer, not murkier, what kind of person I want to be.