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Technical articles on developer tooling, self-hosted infrastructure, and building products at the intersection of design and engineering. Written by a Technical Product Manager and UX Engineer open to full-time roles.
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Clean Room: A Login-Free X Post Viewer on One Cloudflare Worker
Clean Room turns any X post link into a clean, login-free viewer page anyone can open. One Cloudflare Worker, X's public oEmbed API, a fallback-first quote card, an iOS Shortcut, and a bookmarklet. No analytics, no cookies, no trackers.
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Captain's Quarters: A Single-File Home Bar Manager That Runs Three Ways
A single self-contained HTML file that manages a 223-bottle home bar and a 93-bottle rare-rum cellar, with an AI bartender, batch math, pour logging, and cellar economics. The same file runs three ways: as a Claude artifact, as a Cloudflare app on D1 and R2 behind Access, and offline as an installed PWA.
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Alambique Index: A Local, Private RAG Over Your Own Reference Library
A local, private retrieval engine over my own notes, books, and papers. Ask a question in plain language and get a cited answer, running entirely on my own hardware with nothing uploaded.
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ChonconGO: A Trip Map PWA with Live Location Sharing
A trip-map PWA built for a six-person Pokemon GO Fest weekend in Chicago. Every stop on a map, one-tap directions, offline install, and a live dot for each person in the group.
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scaffold.sh: Zero-Terminal Web Project Initialization with Cloudflare Pages, GitHub CLI, and Raycast
Every new web project used to cost me 15 minutes before a single line of real code was written. Here is how I collapsed that to under 60 seconds, with no terminal required.
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Your Season: Building a Seasonal Color Analysis PWA
A mobile-first PWA covering all 12 seasonal color types with palette guides, wardrobe recommendations, and curated product suggestions. Free, no account required, installs on your home screen like a native app.
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SpecSheet: A Fast-Reference Guide for People Who Know Their Stuff
A no-login, no-account fast-reference app covering homebrewing, coffee, agave spirits, photography, developer tooling, and more. Open it, hit the spec you need, and get on with it.
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photos.corbet.dev: A Self-Hosted Image Uploader on Cloudflare R2
Upload an image, get copy-ready URLs in raw, Markdown, BBCode, and HTML formats instantly. The whole thing runs on Cloudflare R2 and a single Worker, with no third-party image hosting involved.
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Clymber: Building a Climbing Conditioning Tracker for Myself
A structured conditioning and mobility tracker for climbing training, covering pulling strength, hip mobility, and tendon health. Built because no existing app gave me exactly what I needed without a lot of what I did not.
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fresh: Automated macOS and Linux Setup from Scratch
A collection of scripts, dotfiles, CLI tools, and config files that automates getting a new machine back to a fully configured development environment in minutes rather than hours.
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