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Mar 15 β€’ πŸ‘¨β€πŸ’» Software
My Oscar 2026 Picks

My Oscar 2026 Picks

Every year I make my Oscar predictions. This year I put together a small website with my ballot that updates every five minutes during the awards show using data scraped from the Oscars' realtime feed via Chrome DevTools, published with Claude using the new scheduled tasks /loop feature.
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Mar 11 β€’ πŸ‘¨β€πŸ’» Software
The Hardware Liberation Front

The Hardware Liberation Front

I’ve been spending some of my free time writing software to keep perfectly good hardware from becoming e-waste.
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Mar 05 β€’ πŸ‘¨β€πŸ’» Software
A Claude Code Plugin for Building JUCE Audio Plugins

A Claude Code Plugin for Building JUCE Audio Plugins

A while back I wrote about how to start developing audio apps and plugins on macOS using the JUCE-Plugin-Starter I created. I've since turned that workflow into a Claude Code plugin called juce-dev.
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Feb 13 β€’ πŸ‘¨β€πŸ’» Software
I Built a WebDriver for WKWebView Tauri Apps on macOS

I Built a WebDriver for WKWebView Tauri Apps on macOS

I've been exploring Tauri lately – the framework for building desktop (and mobile) apps using web technologies with a Rust backend. I built an an open-source W3C WebDriver implementation to make it easy to test Tauri apps on macOS.
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Jan 14 β€’ πŸ‘¨β€πŸ’» Software
HomeBar: Control Your Smart Home from the Mac Menu Bar

HomeBar: Control Your Smart Home from the Mac Menu Bar

HomeBar sits in your menu bar and lets you toggle lights, switches, and other HomeKit accessories with a single click. No need to open the Home app or pull out your phone.
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