Things I keep thinking about building.

This is mostly a place to keep track of the kinds of software I find interesting: tools for building, tools for operations, and runtime ideas that make the work feel clearer and less annoying.

Nothing here is a company bio. It is closer to a personal index of projects I keep returning to.

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Current work

A few things I keep coming back to.

Pixelbox

What if making software felt more like staying in one thought?

Pixelbox is the environment idea: ask, edit, run, preview, debug, and iterate in one loop instead of scattering attention across a pile of tools and windows.

Local-first development Integrated preview loop Execution-backed progress
Visit Pixelbox

Automoat

Turn messy business data into a defensible AI moat.

Automoat helps discover what is actually proprietary in a business, turn that data into something testable, and prove whether it creates an advantage through research, benchmarks, retrieval, adaptation, and local-first workflows.

Moat discovery Evaluation and benchmarks Local-first workflows
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Forge

A governed runtime for autonomous engineering loops.

Forge wraps coding agents in the missing operating layer: durable task queues, repo memory, policy gates, run receipts, monitor loops, and git-native delivery.

Policy-gated autonomy Run receipts Git delivery
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Shipwright

A product loop for deciding what to build before the agent writes code.

Shipwright compares multiple product directions, gathers evidence, reaches consensus with product, QA, and design, then turns the winner into one bounded implementation target.

Prototype first Consensus before code Evidence page
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Triline

Three-way AI conversations across calls, demos, and rooms.

Triline brings an AI collaborator into the line with a caller and an operator. It supports inbound and outbound AI calls, a browser demo, shared rooms, and long-running conversation context.

Caller + you + AI Inbound and outbound Rooms and demo
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RepGraph

A contribution graph for lifting, habits, and body recomposition.

RepGraph turns workouts, nutrition, body metrics, progress photos, and reminders into daily commits so consistency has a visible history.

Habit commits Workout logging Progress photos
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Concept demo

A live note on video as software state.

ASCILINE Field Note

A hybrid blog post and visual sketch inspired by YusufB5's ASCII video engine.

ASCILINE made me think about video as a surface you can bend: text, color blocks, motion, and traces that other tools can understand.

Credited concept study Live visual sketch Why it matters here
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