I write code on
pure intuition.

My old car had no remote start, which felt less like a missing feature and more like a personal challenge. So I wired a Particle microcontroller into it, hung the whole thing off Supabase, and taught the car to start from my phone. It worked. It still works, actually, which is the part that surprises everyone including me.

The car is a white CR-V named Jo - nonbinary, dignified, and now retired into a comfortable second life as my mom's daily driver. Jo earned that. I gave Jo superpowers and then gave Jo away. That is the circle of life.

I wanted to share a music queue with friends and track playlists over time, and rather than find an app that did this, I built two. SharedQ keeps a queue in sync across everyone in the room in realtime; Playlistlist watches playlists and remembers how they change. The name is, yes, a list of playlists. I will not be workshopping it.

Front ends in SwiftUI and Kotlin / Jetpack Compose, a Vapor backend holding the WebSockets together with conviction and not much else. Every stable-engineering rule I've heard of was respectfully considered and then completely bypassed. The queues stayed synced. The friends were entertained. The metrics that matter were green.