Journal

Writing from the field.

Engineering notes, product launch stories, and lessons from the field — shipped over a decade of building software.

A LaCroix electric skateboard shot head-on against black — Hypertrucks splayed wide on pneumatic tyres, a blue anodised hanger, twin LED pods and a carbon deck.
Open-source 17 min read

vesc-workbench — scripting a sealed motor controller, and the dashboard that came out of it

Tuning a VESC means clicking through tabs in a GUI, hoping you wrote the number you think you wrote, with no record of what changed. It doesn't have to. The whole configuration ...

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The four rebuilt homepages side by side — Mower Corner's cast-iron and safety-orange shopfront, Breeder's Choice in daylight green, Superior Shavings in industrial iron and red, and AC Service & Parts in bone and forest
Engineering 6 min read

Four Australian client sites, rebuilt for 2026 — and shipped behind a preview on their own live domains

Four established Australian businesses, rebuilt from Bootstrap-and-jQuery to hand-written CSS. Four deliberately different identities, a stockist finder the owner still edits fr...

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A strip of uptime ticks, one per check run, mostly cyan and broken by a red run of failures bracketed with "OPENED · 35m · RECOVERED"
Open-source 8 min read

clawdwatch — synthetic monitoring for Cloudflare Workers, with an inbox an AI agent can read

An uptime monitor that lives inside one Cloudflare Worker. No model decides whether your site is down — a threshold and a state machine do. But every alert carries signed, short...

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A red run of failing monitoring ticks feeding into a triage card that names a merged pull request as the cause, with source chips for GitHub, Datadog, Sentry and Rollbar
Open-source 8 min read

thinkbot — the ops agent that reads the 500 nobody was awake for

A health endpoint returned a 500 whose body named the failing dependency, for five hours, while the alert carried only "expected 200, got 500". The cause was sitting in a respon...

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Charred logs breaking into orange coals, glowing from within the cracks against a dark background
Open-source 8 min read

Sustain — I was told to play didgeridoo for my snoring, so I built an open-source practice coach

There is a real randomised controlled trial in the BMJ showing that four months of didgeridoo practice roughly halves sleep apnoea. The catch is the four months. So I built the ...

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An architect drafting a technical plan with a pencil and ruler on white paper, seen from above
Open-source 7 min read

linework — drop a 3D model, get a rotatable technical drawing in SVG

Drop a glTF or OBJ model and linework extracts its feature edges into a rotatable technical drawing — pure SVG, no WebGL, ~180 lines, zero dependencies. I needed this for a bike...

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A dimly lit underground mine tunnel receding into darkness, a single lamp glowing in the distance
Open-source 5 min read

durable-sync — offline-first sync for Cloudflare Durable Objects, no Postgres and no container

Every credible offline-first sync engine wants Postgres and a long-running container. But a Durable Object is already a single-threaded ordering point per user — the exact thing...

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A compass resting on a map — steering a portfolio by a set heading rather than by hand
Open-source 4 min read

Sovereign — an autonomous IBKR fund that trades through bezant, with guardrails because it's real money

bezant gave us typed access to Interactive Brokers. Sovereign is the thing that actually runs a fund on top of it: nine deterministic agents for allocation, risk, tax, and execu...

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A loaded barbell resting on the floor of a dark gym
Open-source 4 min read

Rampset — I got fired as a customer, so I built the gym app myself and open-sourced it

Eleven years and 1,221 workouts of loyalty ended with my grandfathered plan cancelled without my consent and a 6× price to come back. So I built my own — offline-first, three wa...

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A long-exposure photograph of a river forcing its way through a channel of dark rock — the water never stops moving, finding a path around every obstruction
Engineering 7 min read

Taking over Sequin: adopting an orphaned CDC engine, fixing the Dragonfly crash, and putting it behind Cloudflare Access

A search pipeline I work on runs on Sequin, a Postgres CDC engine. Then a routine Dragonfly redeploy started taking it down — and the company behind Sequin had gone dark. So the...

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A small campervan on a rural road at twilight beneath a perfectly conical mountain — the kind of place cell coverage runs out and offline maps start mattering
Engineering 21 min read

Offline maps that look like 2026, not 2013 — a vector→raster MBTiles pipeline

OSM → planetiler → tileserver-gl → raster MBTiles → Cloudflare R2. A platform-agnostic pipeline for shipping offline basemaps with a modern MapLibre aesthetic — free, no API key...

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A silver iPhone resting on a silver MacBook, hinting at the wireless tether between phone and laptop
Open-source 2 min read

Shutterdrop — wireless tethered phone camera for your Mac

Tap your phone, the photo lands in a folder on your Mac a moment later. iOS + Android + Python receiver — LAN + Bonjour, no cable, no cloud, no account.

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Close-up of a dark monitor showing colourful financial line charts trending upward — the kind of data bezant makes typed and programmable
Open-source 4 min read

bezant — typed IBKR access from Rust, HTTP, CLI, MCP, and TypeScript

A Rust-first async client for the Interactive Brokers Client Portal Web API — five surfaces (Rust, HTTP, CLI, MCP, TypeScript) driven by one vendored OpenAPI spec.

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Studio operator checking members in with the SessionHQ platform
Product 3 min read

Introducing SessionHQ — our flagship SaaS

After months of engineering and iteration with real studio operators, our flagship SaaS is live — running nightly check-ins for dance, gym and martial-arts studios.

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Close-up of a vintage postage stamp collection through a magnifying glass
Open-source 2 min read

Stamp Scanner — iPhone + Mac + SAM 3 for cataloguing stamp collections

A two-device workflow — iPhone as a macro scanner, Mac running SAM 3 segmentation, deduplication, and a local Qwen3-VL for identification — with Colnect lookup and a SwiftUI lib...

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Mountain biker riding a trail through a lush green forest
Open-source 3 min read

bike-part-planner — test-driven MTB part fitment modelling

A TypeScript framework for modelling bike part fitment — rear shocks, forks, ebike motors & batteries — with coil conversions, spring rates, and real catalog data. Tests, recipe...

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Black and white photography studio with lighting gear and seamless backdrop
Open-source 2 min read

Clean Backdrop — free, GPU-accelerated studio backdrop cleanup

An open-source alternative to Retouch4me Clean Backdrop — shadow lift plus frequency separation on a BiRefNet-Portrait mask, run on CUDA. Clean math, no AI inpainting artifacts.

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Tax documents and financial paperwork neatly arranged on a desk
Open-source 2 min read

Ledger — Australian personal finance ETL and ATO tax dashboard

A terminal-first personal finance tool that ingests statements from ING, Bankwest, HSBC, PayPal, Amex, and Coles, categorises transactions, and renders an ATO-ready tax view — l...

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Abstract neural network illustration representing large language models
Ai 3 min read

local-llm-coding-guide — Qwen, Gemma, and llama.cpp as a coding assistant

A benchmarks-first guide to running local LLMs as a coding assistant — Qwen3.6, Qwen3.5, and Gemma 4 on an RTX 4070 Ti, a 3090, and an M3 Pro MacBook with real tok/s and memory ...

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Close-up of a mixing console in a professional recording studio
Open-source 2 min read

audio-analysis-and-recut — reconstructing a live set from the studio master

A Python tool that cross-correlates a noisy live performance recording against the original studio track and rebuilds a clean recut that follows the live arrangement.

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Android phone displaying app development tools on a desk
Open-source 2 min read

react-native-nitro-unzip — a fast, Nitro-powered unzip module

A React Native ZIP library built on Nitro Modules — ~500 files/sec on iOS, ~474 on Android, AES-256 support, cancellation via JSI, and zero bridge serialisation.

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Smartphone screen displaying a folder of social media apps
Open-source 2 min read

claude-social-skills — Claude Code plugins for social, email, and eBay

A Claude Code plugin marketplace bundling social-post, ebay-listing, and himalaya-email — just scripts + skills, no MCP servers, no daemons.

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Close-up of an optical camera lens reflecting light
Open-source 2 min read

deflicker-runner — killing LED PWM flicker in 4K video, in 400MB of RAM

A streaming temporal-median deflicker pipeline for 4K footage shot under LED lights — full-length video, ~400MB RAM, and a handful of specialised modes for spot flicker and roll...

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Cinema camera with a large lens in a professional production setting
Open-source 2 min read

color-grade-ai — AI-assisted .cube LUT generation

A Claude Code skill that analyses a video frame, identifies colour problems, and generates targeted .cube 3D LUTs for DaVinci Resolve and Premiere Pro.

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The Slack mark beside a terminal window running slackbuzz inbox, slackbuzz reply, and slackbuzz status
Open-source 2 min read

slackbuzz-cli — Slack from the terminal, without leaving flow

A Go CLI for Slack that brings the activity inbox, threads, DMs, file uploads, reactions, and ClickUp/GitHub-aware message enrichment to a terminal.

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The ClickUp mark beside a terminal window running clickup task view, clickup link pr, and clickup status set "review"
Open-source 2 min read

clickup-cli — ClickUp from the terminal, wired into git and GitHub

A Go CLI for ClickUp that auto-detects task IDs from git branches, links PRs, drives the sprint dashboard, and hands AI coding agents clean JSON — now the most-starred thing Tri...

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Concert crowd illuminated by stage lights, phones held high
Product 3 min read

Introducing Nexxara — event media management, reimagined

Dual-watermarked galleries, QR access, AI photo bracketing, real multi-tenant roles — our event media SaaS, built on Next.js, Cloudflare, and Supabase.

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Black screen filled with JavaScript code illuminated in cool light
Open-source 2 min read

cloudflare-worker-rollbar — a Rollbar client built for Workers

A zero-dependency, TypeScript-first Rollbar client for Cloudflare Workers — waitUntil-friendly, request-handler wrappable, with sensitive-data scrubbing built in.

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Server racks glowing in a modern data centre corridor
Engineering 1 min read

Chrome on Lambda — headful browser in a container image

Running headful Chrome — with extensions — inside an AWS Lambda container image, using Xvfb to supply the virtual display Chrome insists on.

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Skater riding a longboard on an asphalt ramp in golden light
Engineering 1 min read

Boosted Board LED brake lights — Arduino, accelerometer, Cylon sweep

An Arduino + accelerometer + WS2812B strip turning a Boosted board into a Cylon-style rolling light rig — with a brake light that actually reacts to deceleration.

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Instructor writing an equation on a whiteboard during a coding dojo
Open-source 1 min read

Elixir Dojo — functional programming, zero local setup

A Dockerised Elixir coding dojo — one command in, one workshop out. No local Erlang install required.

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Chess pieces arranged on a board — strategic state, one move at a time
Open-source 1 min read

Tic-Tac-Toe Redux Dojo — teaching state management

A Redux coding dojo built around tic-tac-toe — commit-by-commit steps, reducer-first thinking, and the time-travel devtools as the payoff.

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