Thoughts, concepts, and half-baked ideas worth writing down—less polished manifesto, more working notes I'm willing to share.
A command-line exporter for unencrypted FileMaker .fmp12 files — what lives on disk, how sectors and chunks relate to tables and containers, and why Evan Miller’s fmptools was the right foundation.
A working browser-based emulator of the VAX MAIL system from DEC's VMS operating system — the email interface that defined university computing in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
I designed a coat of arms. It turned out to be less about tradition and more about how I think.
A walkthrough of the stack behind aluchi.com — Astro on Cloudflare, Markdown from GitHub, KV caching, and no CMS in sight.
A clean, fast tool for checking your public IP, geolocation, ASN, TLS details, and more — with curl-friendly plain-text endpoints for scripting and terminal use.
Installing Linux Mint 23 on a 12-core Mac Pro 6,1 — the trash can — including WiFi driver wrangling, keyboard choices, and why this machine is still worth using in 2026.
Sourcing and selling vintage and upcycled goods at the South Pasadena Farmers Market and storefront — wire crowns, monkey pod bowls, and something for everyone.
How to put together a great photobooth experience on a budget — starting with a ring light, an iPad, and the right app.
An experiment to see if AppleScript was still viable for building a real application — turns out it was more capable than expected.
A custom Groovy plugin and FileMaker interface that brought Google Voice calling and SMS into FileMaker Pro — featured at FileMaker DevCon 2010 and presented by John Sindelar of SeedCode during the keynote.
The first FileMaker to Amazon S3 integration — a full-featured plugin built on ScriptMaster, custom Java and Groovy, and the AWS Java SDK.
A UW student asked me to play a zombie for her film class final project. Three days of shooting around the Seattle suburbs, a Super 8 camera, and a mouth full of Hershey's chocolate syrup.
Two seasons volunteering as a Beach Naturalist at Carkeek Park through the Seattle Aquarium's program — educating beachgoers about tidal pool life, and convincing kids not to take any of it home.