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Posts come from projects I am building directly, with implementation-level context instead of recycled summaries.
Build Journal
Engineering notes from active projects, written for builders who want useful detail.
This is a public operating log, not a generic content feed. Each entry is intended to explain decisions, constraints, and outcomes.
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Planned and In-Progress Write-Ups
Topics in active drafting, prioritized by project momentum and collaborator requests.
Architecture · 8 min
Why I Built Recyclr GX Instead of Using HTMX
Why I replaced HTMX with a proprietary server-state system that can update many UI targets from one request using bundled partials.
Status: Drafting
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Game Dev · 10 min
Night City Fixer: Building a Living Cyberpunk World
How simulation-first fan-game design choices shape mechanics, pacing, and long-term extensibility.
Status: Planned
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Game Dev · 8 min
Tamers Digivice VPet: Building a Non-Commercial Fan VPet
Design notes on progression loops, authenticity goals, and release constraints for a fan-made VPet app.
Status: Planned
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AI Engineering · 9 min
What I Learned Building Omnidex in Go + Ollama
Notes on agent architecture, local model orchestration, and practical reliability lessons from early versions.
Status: Drafting
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Product Design · 7 min
Yomu Japan: Designing for Retention Over Hype
The product decisions behind habit loops, lesson structure, and learner trust.
Status: Planned
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Narrative Universe · 9 min
The Third Pillar: Building an Occult-Noir Canon Across Books, Characters, and Hidden Timelines
How I'm structuring a lifelong mythos into a franchise-scale canon told through character-led books, side stories, worldbuilding arcs, and long-range narrative planning spanning horror, conspiracy, symbolism, and cosmic conflict.
Status: Planned
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Game Tooling · 7 min
Building a D&D Character Builder in the Browser
How I modeled character decisions, class mechanics, and progression rules in a browser-based builder to speed up campaign setup.
Status: Planned
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Game Tooling · 8 min
Designing a D&D Map Builder for Faster Session Prep
Architecture notes from building a map workflow focused on quick layout iteration, reusable assets, and practical DM prep speed.
Status: Planned
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PHP Engineering · 8 min
PHP Struct: Shipping a Type-Safe PHP Data Model Library to Composer
Lessons from designing Gryph\PHPStruct around strict typed properties, reflection-based hydration, and serialization ergonomics.
Status: Planned
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Web Architecture · 7 min
Laravel 10 Without Vite: Keeping a Lean Frontend Build Pipeline
Tradeoffs and implementation details from running a Laravel 10 stack without Vite while maintaining practical asset workflows.
Status: Planned
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AI Engineering · 8 min
GenAI: Building a Generic AI Webserver in Go
Architecture and tradeoffs from building a reusable Go webserver abstraction for model-backed endpoints and agent workflows.
Status: Planned
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Product Design · 7 min
Learn Lao: Applying Language Product Patterns Beyond Japanese
How retention loops, lesson structure, and trust-oriented UX patterns translated from one language-learning product into another.
Status: Planned
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Developer Tools · 6 min
Error Scanner: Parsing Laravel Logs Into Actionable Alerts
Implementation notes on converting noisy Laravel logs into prioritized issue signals for faster incident response.
Status: Planned
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Infrastructure · 7 min
API Proxy: Forwarding Full Requests Without Breaking Contracts
Design choices for a pass-through API proxy that preserves request shape while adding control points for auth, routing, and observability.
Status: Planned
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Research · 6 min
Future Systems I Want to Build Outside My Wheelhouse
Research tracks and moonshot ideas spanning hardware, simulation, and interdisciplinary products.
Status: Planned
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Life Strategy · 6 min
Long-Horizon Independence and Sailing Plan
A 10-year plan to transition from salaried work to self-sustaining software income, then live and build while traveling by boat with reliable connectivity.
Status: Planned
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Automation · 6 min
Audio Library Sync From Video Playlists
A Go utility that scans a source playlist directory, extracts MP3 audio from new MP4 files, compares timestamps for updates, and applies metadata plus artwork.
Status: Planned
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AI Engineering · 6 min
Coding Assistant With Go + Ollama
A local agent workflow with tool use, structured JSON outputs, HTML parsing safeguards, file search, chunking rules, and interactive note-taking transforms.
Status: Planned
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Product · 6 min
Manga Reader and Cross-Source Tag Aggregator
A service that aggregates manga sources, normalizes tags across providers, deduplicates records, recovers from source failures, and supports unified search.
Status: Planned
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Simulation · 6 min
E-Sim Action Engine
A simulation interface with action descriptors, rolling outcomes, persistent memory, location context, and prompt generation support for LLM-driven interactions.
Status: Planned
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Browser Tools · 6 min
Search Results Review Extension
A browser extension concept to score and hide unwanted search results, remove tracker URLs, and improve relevance using cached user preferences.
Status: Planned
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Hardware · 6 min
CyberArm: Arm-Motion Puppet Device
A mechanically linked arm concept that mirrors human motion and can include camera-assisted tracking for directional control.
Status: Planned
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Hardware · 6 min
Cyberdeck With Triple Hinge Displays
A compact portable workstation with three phone-sized displays on a hinge, built around a laptop-like base for mobile development use.
Status: Planned
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Embedded Systems · 6 min
Raspberry Pi Car Bluetooth and Home Assistant Retrofit
A Raspberry Pi retrofit that powers on with the car, auto-starts Bluetooth services, reconnects to phone audio automatically, and runs Home Assistant in-vehicle.
Status: Planned
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Embedded Systems · 6 min
PiBoy DMG Cloud Save Backup System
Custom shell scripts and cron jobs on PiBoy DMG to scan and rebuild ROM directory trees, sync saves and save states to a home server, and send backup start or completion SMS alerts via email gateways.
Status: Planned
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Developer Journey · 6 min
UPS Store Inventory and Box List Workflow Tools
Early web-development-era workflow tooling built while managing a UPS Store role, using coding skills to generate box list and inventory management documents.
Status: Planned
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Product Engineering · 6 min
Magento Multi-Location Inventory System
A React and Redux inventory platform built while working as a Product Manager, integrated with Magento to manage coded inventory, custom code printing, and warehouse operations across multiple locations, hosted on a local Raspberry Pi and accessible by mobile devices.
Status: Planned
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Media Systems · 6 min
Bentobox TV
An early anime streaming platform that used background browser automation and source indexing to build a MongoDB-backed autoplay queue and personal download workflow for uninterrupted viewing sessions.
Status: Planned
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Automation · 6 min
Roku Session Keepalive Automation
A media-device automation script system that periodically simulated lightweight activity through Roku app controls to keep long-form playback sessions from timing out.
Status: Planned
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Media Systems · 6 min
MKV Streaming Pipeline With Go, FFmpeg, and Laravel
A custom media service that queues per-time-slice stream jobs in Laravel, calls a Go API to generate MP4 buffer segments from MKV sources with FFmpeg (including subtitle workflows), stores readiness in PostgreSQL, and uses a JavaScript MediaSource controller to append chunks in the browser.
Status: Planned
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Hardware · 6 min
Mouse Eyes: Camera and Eye-Tracking Input
A gaze-based input system with multi-monitor awareness, calibration, click alternatives, and optional device-side camera triangulation.
Status: Planned
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Developer Tools · 6 min
Cross-Platform Local Config Package
A package that provisions hidden global config directories, prompts for setup values, and reads or writes structured config files consistently.
Status: Planned
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Developer Tools · 6 min
Project Tracer CLI for Execution Paths
A CLI workflow to trace downstream execution from a route or function through middleware, controllers, and dependent classes.
Status: Planned
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Systems · 6 min
Rust Quest RDP Streaming Architecture
A low-latency screen streaming architecture spanning capture, encoding, chunking, transport protocol choices, and client playback strategy.
Status: Planned
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Desktop Utility · 6 min
Hotkey Launcher for Quick Actions
A native launcher triggered by hotkey for fast application and workflow actions, positioned as a lightweight companion to terminal aliases.
Status: Planned
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Infrastructure · 6 min
VPN Work Hub on Cloud Infrastructure
A hosted VPN gateway that centralizes work tooling, secure link access, and remote file or media connectivity from any device.
Status: Planned
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Infrastructure · 6 min
Workstation-as-Code System
A codified development environment with generated Docker files, dependency manifests, startup scripts, tmux and editor configs, and daily handoff routines.
Status: Planned
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Infrastructure · 6 min
Workstation Manager
A related manager project for provisioning and operating reusable workstation setups across multiple projects.
Status: Planned
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Writing Tools · 6 min
Writing Assistant With Timeline and Entity Tracking
A CRUD-based writing system to track characters, events, factions, motivations, and chronology for story development.
Status: Planned
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