Small tools, one user
Side Projects
Small tools built between other work, usually because a normal day handed me a specific annoyance and the fastest fix was to write a tool for it. These are write-ups, not products, source code, or downloads.
Instrument Builder
A freeform, drawing-based synthesizer for designing custom instruments: sketch the shape of a sound directly with control over volume, pitch, filter, pan, and spectrum, layer sketched sounds with real audio samples, and play the result back over MIDI.
Zoom Volume Regulator
A background utility that applies automatic gain control during calls, continuously measuring speech level and smoothing it out in real time, with logging of how it adjusted over a call.
GasBuddy Watcher
A system-tray watcher that checks nearby gas prices on a schedule, logs the history, and builds an HTML dashboard so price trends and drops are easy to spot.
Custom Typing Test
A drill purpose-built to train the number row at the top of the keyboard, tracking per-digit accuracy and hesitation time before each keystroke, rolling every session into a trends dashboard.
YNAB Insights
A forecasting layer on top of YNAB: statistical detection of recurring income/expenses, forward-looking forecasts, a credit-card autopay estimator, and a monthly net worth snapshot pushed to Compass.
Animation AI
A local pipeline that transcribes audio, lets you mark scene breaks and notes in a director panel, has an AI step turn that into a storyboard, and renders the storyboard into an animated scene, with every version auto-saved.