Projects & Hackathons
Greenkeeper
Open-source Go CLI: a local daemon watches GitHub PRs and runs your AI provider in a dedicated worktree when CI fails, merge conflicts appear, or review threads still need attention.
Cursor Model ROI
A sortable comparison of Cursor-supported models — token pricing, Arena scores, speed tiers, and cache-aware bang-for-buck, refreshed from upstream data on a schedule.
Clipboard Inspector
Inspect, edit, and copy back every MIME type on your clipboard. Monaco editor with syntax highlighting and rich previews for HTML, JSON, SVG, Markdown, and CSV.
Anon
Anonymous question submission for all-hands meetings. WebRTC peer-to-peer, no backend, no logs, with optional client-side AI to anonymize your writing style.
Cursor Wrapped
A Spotify Wrapped-style dashboard for your Cursor IDE usage, built entirely by AI.
Secret Santa
A serverless Secret Santa organizer with constraints and shareable reveal links.
Spoticover
A Spotify playlist cover generator with constrained randomness and geometric design rules.
Date Calculator
A quick and useful date calculator, built to test my new boilerplate.
ETHGlobal NYC
Building HouseHodl at ETHGlobal NYC after winning Web3NZ.
Loan Market
Our entry to the inaugural 2025 Web3 Hackathon.
TerribleHack 2025
A rollercoaster weekend of hosting TerribleHack 2025.
TerribleHack 2024
My first time running a hackathon, and a farewell to Zac.
Replacing Our SQL Parser
A two-day rewrite of a paid third-party ANTLR SQL parser, 3–20× faster on real customer SQL. The production version isn't mine.
Migrating Off Firestore
A year of frontend work to move off Firestore. Dual writes, feature-flagged reads, SSE for real-time, no customer-visible incident.
Fixing a Slow React App
Redux subscriptions, duplicate data, and an entire workspace held in memory. Memoization was the bandaid.
Frontend Three-Layer Architecture
View models, state management as a data access layer, and why feature isolation is a lie.
Interface Driven Development
How interfaces let you ship AI-generated code without regret.
Local First vs Cloud
Data sovereignty, ethical software, and why your app should outlive its creator.
Error Handling with Neverthrow
Typed error handling in TypeScript, mapping errors between layers, and an unusual namespace pattern.
Three Layered Architecture
Controllers, Services, and Repositories, and the dependency injection decisions that make it practical.
Registry Pattern
A pattern for managing dynamic implementations at runtime with type safety and dependency injection.
My Monorepo Setup
Why I use a monorepo, my disdain for Vercel, and how I deploy SPAs in 15 lines of code.
Homelab 2025
Lessons in redundancy after losing 50TB, rebuilding with RaidZ2, and expanding to two nodes.
TrueNAS Migration
A migration of my homelab from Unraid + Docker to TrueNAS Scale + Kubernetes.
Rent Racket
A political satire card game for Kiwijam 2024.
INFRA.NZ
An infrastructure visualisation and mapping tool for GovHack 2023.
Mixer Mayhem
A community vote controlled automated bartender for TerribleHack 2023.
Bustle
A public transport rewards programme proposal for GovHack 2022.
CNC Tattoo
An automatic CNC controlled tattoo machine for TerribleHack 2022.