the workshop · selected builds
Production work, taken apart so you can see the folds.
The skills set, modular by nature. They actually snap together
ML / AI
IBM intelligent document processing — OCR/NLP model dev & evaluation, LLM work on Granite, automation frameworks non-technical teammates can build on. Plus Calendar OCR, SpamStudy, spoti_data.
Security
The discofin homelab series: VPN namespacing, the Docker firewall footgun, supply-chain-gated updates, threat-modeled auth. And the Android app-privacy study.
Full-stack
shreyachanth, Golu Molu (Shopify/Liquid), Haven’s Artistry, BigStorage, Sister Isles, Resumable, weeboweebo. Real production frontends.
Infra / Cloud
Cloudflare Workers, Durable Objects, D1, Pages, R2; the discofin homelab; homelab-glance; IronShell on Kubernetes.
Automation
Spotify2MP3, the homelab’s automation, and agent-authored build plans behind IronShell and Resumable.
Other builds
grouped by what they are
Games
3 builds/ games
Sister Isles
A cozy multiplayer life-sim where every island is its own hibernating Durable Object: stateful serverless that mostly doesn't exist until you say its name.
/ games
Sortle
Wordle, but for sorting algorithms. You're given an unsorted array; after each guess you see it advanced by one pass, and you have to name the algorithm doing the sorting.
/ games
Clowder
A co-op survival game about a clowder of cats holding a low-poly city, designed around needs you read from body language instead of a HUD.
Frontend
4 builds/ frontend
Haven's Artistry
A cottagecore-maximalist shop for a handmade-goods maker: a fully static Next.js site that deploys clean to Cloudflare Pages.
/ frontend
weeboweebo
A private rich-communication web app I built so my family could stay in touch with my sisters after their school banned phones.
/ frontend
Kaleidoscope
A browser drawing toy that mirrors every stroke across a set of rotated axes, so a few scribbles fall out as a full mandala. Stalled for years as a prototype, now rebuilt from scratch and live.
/ frontend
Audio Visualizer
A Spotify-aware visualizer that follows your playback in real time, plus an honest, still-open attempt to make the visuals actually move with the music.
ML / AI
3 builds/ ml / ai
Calendar OCR
An iOS app that reads handwritten events off a photo of a paper calendar and adds them to your phone, where the real work is rebuilding the grid, not reading the letters.
/ ml / ai
SpamStudy
A study of what's actually in your Gmail spam: a Random Forest classifier plus LDA topic modeling, with a web front end that runs it on your own inbox.
/ ml / ai
spoti_data
A small Python script that crunches my own Spotify listening history into a personal Wrapped, on my own schedule.
Infra
3 builds/ infra
IronShell: STL repair
A web service that repairs broken 3D-print meshes: the seven-headed problem of making a model watertight and manifold, behind a job queue.
/ infra
homelab-glance
Live homelab stats on a macOS desktop and an iOS home screen, fed by one resilient FastAPI aggregator that degrades a card at a time instead of going blank.
/ infra
BigStorage
A Google Drive clone: auth, file storage, folders, sharing, and trash, on Next.js and AWS.
Security
2 builds/ security
FlatFold: a messenger that keeps nothing
The weeboweebo family chat, rebuilt into a browser messenger with real end-to-end encryption and a server that keeps no messages, so there's nothing to hand over when someone comes asking.
/ security
Android App Privacy Study
A data-collection study that scrapes Play Store metadata at scale to look at sensitive app categories and what they expose.
Automation
3 builds/ automation
Spotify2MP3
A cross-platform desktop app that turns a playlist export into a folder of clean M4A or MP3 files. No Python, no terminal, just drag and drop.
/ automation
Resumable
A resume-improvement app: drop in a PDF, OCR the text out, and get it analyzed. An MVP aimed at scaling to mobile.
/ automation
Laptop Remote
An iOS app and a paired macOS receiver that let you drive your Mac from your phone over the local network.