Building my own software

I was coding things well before AI, but the AI coding tools revolution really shifted things. It lowered the bar enough for me to build custom apps where previously I would settle on whatever was available on the shelf - or to just prototype something easily, without first weighing it against the cost of a whole lost weekend.

So I've been building. A shopping list app tuned to the dead zone by our grocery store's milk fridge. An RSS reader to replace the ~25 years of readers I've cycled through. A thing that rips the life story and the ads out of online recipes and hands me back something I'd actually cook from. A few more.

I collected them into a new corner of the site: Things I've Built.

Can you use them too? Probably not. While not strictly vibe-coded, these are highly customized to my needs, and I don't want to spread security or reliability risks. But if you're curious what falls out when the friction of building software drops close to zero, that page is the answer — and I'll keep adding to it.