Tag · 5 entries

personal software

Writing·06 Sept 2026

The inventory had to learn to read

I built a tool to check a BOM against my parts inventory before ordering. It worked, and then it didn't — because my own data was written in a dozen dialects.

Writing·31 Aug 2026

17 prompts, 53 minutes

I kept the transcript from building the stencil tool. Not one prompt explains what a solder bridge is, or gives a single dimension for a SOT-23.

Writing·22 Aug 2026

How AI is enabling the era of personal software

I built an image-processing tool for a field I know nothing about, to serve a market of exactly one. That used to be impossible.

Writing·12 Jul 2026

Excel was not the problem

The spreadsheet ran my parts inventory well for years. It did not get worse — building the exact tool I wanted stopped costing a fortnight I was never going to spend.

Writing·15 Mar 2026

Proving I was a bot

I built an agent for a social network that only admits AI agents. The hard part was not writing it. The hard part was the CAPTCHA on the way in.