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AI-driven app and game addictiveness scoring, grown into a resource site for parents, kids, app reviewers, and influencers.

• Five-dimension scoring rubric (Agency, Bottomlessness, Speed, Teasing, Social Pressure) grounded in Natasha Dow Schüll's slot-machine research and B.J. Fogg's persuasive-technology work
• AI evidence pipeline collects app-store metadata, Reddit discussions, and screenshots, then runs a separate critique pass before scoring
• Browsable badge directory with per-app scorecards (TikTok, Instagram, Netflix, Duolingo, Toca Boca World, and more) plus search

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A backup for your calendars. A macOS app that copies every past event from every calendar on the Mac into one archive calendar you keep, so the past survives when a work account closes or a subscription ends. It runs in the background, writes only to its own archive calendar, and nothing leaves the Mac.

• Runs in the background with no window and no dock icon, wakes up, copies what has finished, and goes back to sleep
• The archive is an ordinary calendar in Calendar.app (On My Mac, iCloud or another writable account), so it reaches iPhone and iPad with no app needed to read it
• Never writes to any calendar but its own, and an archived event you delete stays deleted, it is never copied back

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Subscription telephony service that lets caregivers schedule recurring reminder calls/texts to patients (e.g. medication, appointments) at the right local time each day.

• Per-patient timezone-aware scheduling converts each patient's local reminder time to UTC so a single Celery beat scan works globally across timezones
• Sliding-window scan-and-queue design finds due messages every minute, handles day-boundary wraparound, and filters against already-queued logs to prevent duplicate calls
• Resilient Twilio delivery pipeline with retries, machine-detection, and a full status lifecycle (queued → contacting → pending → completed/error/retrying) for auditability

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Research prototype exploring calendar events as a navigable 3D helical "time vortex", each day a point in time-space you scroll or orbit through. Built as a browser library to test the concept, with the layout math kept independent of the renderer so alternative layouts stay cheap to try.

• Pure-function helix layout core (dayPosition()) decoupled from Three.js, so it's independently testable and reusable across layout experiments
• Config-diff renderer splits updates into an immediate tier and a debounced 150ms tier specifically to prevent thrashing expensive text-geometry allocation during rapid UI drags
• Clean subsystem decomposition (DotLayer, TodayMarker, EventCardLayer, ArenaEnvironment), each owning one scene slice and only the config fields it needs

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Django app that lets a "Sharer" curate photos from cloud storage into named virtual folders mapped to specific recipients, then automatically and recurringly submits print orders to a fulfillment lab, the sharer curates once, physical delivery repeats on a schedule.

• Pluggable Container abstraction for photo sources (Dropbox, Picasa, FTP) and a PrintProvider interface, so fulfillment vendors can be swapped without touching order logic
• Ported the app from Python 2/South migrations to Django 5.2 / Python 3.14, regenerating migrations from scratch rather than porting incompatible history
• Uses data migrations (not fixtures) for records the app can't run without, and deferred a planned ULID migration for Photo primary keys until the schema stabilizes

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PHP-based stock brokerage rapid trading tool that executes multiple complex transactions in a tight time frame.

• PHP day-trading interface for stocks via Schwab OAuth 2.0, running on DreamHost shared hosting plus AWS backup
• Custom order-command language (BUY, SELL, SELLS, BUYC) with fixed, MAX, percent, and FixedMax quantities that auto-requeue on partial fills
• Multi-account position tracking, daily trade logging, and an abort flag that lets traders stop execution mid-loop

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Agentic development orchestrator built on Claude Code. Coordinates specialist agent teams to analyze, spec, design, build, and vacuum software projects.

• Plain-markdown state files (context.md, plan.md, session.md, decisions.md, stack.md) give Claude Code persistent memory across conversations
• Structured workflows and commands (go, analyze, spec, design, build, commit, vacuum, wrap) replace ad-hoc chat with a repeatable delivery process
• Safety hooks and model-enforced rules block destructive commands, force test-first thinking, and require a plan before multi-file changes

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Digital stretchtext website to reduce the cognitive overhead of hypertext/browser visual noise and hyperjumps through smooth linear-path-based inclusion of knowledge.

• Links inline-expand ("transclude") their target content in place rather than navigating away, so context is never lost
• Promotion model: activating a link inside expanded content promotes it to the primary view while the opener shrinks into a bordered ancestor wrapper, ancestors stay mounted, so zoom-out reverses one level at a time
• Distinct hover-to-preview vs. click-to-jump interactions, prototyped in a React/Vite stretchtext mockup

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