Project Notes
Notes from the practice — on shipping software, modernizing tools, working with AI, and the small product decisions that make small businesses run better.
Building Chewie Mode with Claude
A look at how I modified the Ghost Solo theme with Claude Code to build Chewie Mode, a poster style layout inspired by early hip hop flyers.
Read the piece →AI-Accelerated Modernization
How AI is shifting the economics of modernizing a four-year-old custom app — and the kinds of small businesses that benefit most.
A Better Way to Load Your Shokz
Loading music onto Shokz OpenSwim headphones means dragging MP3s onto a USB drive in Finder. Conduxor is a Mac app that browses your Apple Music library, copies tracks to your headphones, and tracks what's already on the device.
When a Fractional CTO Actually Helps
The moments inside a small business where a fractional engagement pays for itself in the first month — and the moments it doesn't.
Discovery Isn't Research
Two weeks of customer-interview-shaped discovery isn't user research. Why I keep them separate, and what each is actually for.
Clixbee: Identity
Building the Clixbee Score
Clixbee v1: Picd
The Camera Roll Is Broken
When my daughter asked which photo to send, I hesitated. Not because the photos were bad, but because they were all fine. That moment revealed a problem hiding in the camera roll.
Like the way I think about this?
That's most of what an intro call is.
A half hour on whatever's blocking your stack, your product, or your team.