Things I’ve built: experiments, tools, and 0-to-1 projects. Some shipped, some just to see what’s possible.
Ask counterfactual questions of the historical record. An MCP server (9 tools) and a web app that turn the Seshat Global History Databank into something you can interrogate: pick a civilisation, inject a hypothetical, and watch a forward-projected social-complexity trajectory with confidence bands.
A self-hosted time-shifting proxy for live radio. Buffers any HLS stream and plays it back on a delay you set. Catch an overseas morning show while the coffee brews in your own timezone. PWA with background audio, runs on a Raspberry Pi, no accounts or cloud.
A little app for crossword puzzlers: enter a jumble of letters and it arranges them in a circle, shuffling with smooth, spring-loaded animations to help you spot the anagram.
An LLM-powered copy editor that rewrites prose to match any style guide. Built on Claude, it surfaces edits inline as tracked changes you can accept or reject one by one, and stays resilient when the model returns malformed output. It’s the subject of an accompanying writeup on building robust interfaces for LLMs.
A content-curation platform for publishing your best picks from the web as shareable "editions", and subscribing to the curators who influence you most. Like the Sunday sections every day: for you, by you. I founded it and built it end to end.
A newsletter that re-issued the complete archive of Suck, the seminal 1995–2001 webzine: one post per day, 20 years later to the day, verbatim from the Wayback Machine. Grew to several thousand subscribers. Written up in The Atlantic.