Lab
Side projects, tools I use every day, and whatever I'm curious about this month.
My own budgeting app, plus an MCP server I maintain so I can ask Claude where the money went. It categorizes transactions, adjusts budget allocations, tracks goals, and spots subscriptions, so I don't have to open a spreadsheet.
Shortwave and ham radio without owning a radio or an antenna. A Next.js app and a Python DSP service tune into public KiwiSDR receivers around the world, stream the audio, and map where stations are transmitting from.
A two-sided marketplace matching volunteers with the nonprofits that need them. The platform and localized landing pages for California cities and counties are built. The cold-start plan is to sign up nonprofits first.
A self-hosted n8n instance on EC2 with Postgres, Ollama for local models, and Qdrant for vector search, all under Docker Compose. It runs my own automations, like piping GitHub activity into Slack.