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Building, experimenting. Sharing the journey. Learning Creating Shipping
Software engineer shipping web, mobile, and AI products. Currently deep in local LLMs. Writing about the journey
// startups & projects
PerDiem
2026PerDiem makes budgeting dead simple. Pick a problem spending category, set a monthly budget, and track every purchase. No bank connections. No subscription fees.
Viska
2026Local AI meeting notes. Transcription + summaries + AI assistant, fully offline.
Carve
2023Create On-Chain NFT collections. Build NFT collections where everything lives permanently on the blockchain. No external dependencies, no broken links.
Kickstart Crew
2021Digital Agency and Consulting. Specializing in Web and mobile app development. Helping businesses grow through innovative solutions.
// recent
Data Centers Use an Incredibly Scary Amount of Water.
Sep 11How much water do data centers actually use? I went down a rabbit hole to find out how bad it really is and whether all this has any backing.
I Built an AI App in React Native. The Wrappers Nearly Killed It.
Feb 09Building AI apps in React Native with whisper.rn and llama.rn? Here's what I learned shipping a local, on-device LLM transcription app and why native wrappers around whisper.cpp and llama.cpp will slow you down.