Selected work.

Each row links out to the thing itself, to its source, or to the piece I wrote about building it. 12 on file. The open-source tools also have their own pages in the project collection.

1. 001

   LeadSurface

   Competitor-switch intelligence for revenue teams. It reads developer and SaaS communities and surfaces high-intent switching signals while the conversation is still live. A real product with real customers, built and shipped weekly through a Loop & Gate workflow.

   • read the story
2. 002

   The Loop & Gate System

   A Foundation layer plus three kits for building, marketing, and following through on your own projects with an AI agent. An agentic loop runs on its own most of the time, but stops at a fixed set of gates where a human has to decide.

   • open source
3. 003

   Hermes Dispatch

   Open source, local-first dispatch layer for the Hermes agent by Nous Research. Type a request into a mobile chat, a router sends it to the right one of more than two dozen specialized agents, and it runs on your own models via Ollama and LiteLLM.

   • open source
4. 004

   Detent

   A library of native web components with no framework underneath. Every component page has live examples and an API reference, and shows its accessibility verification status. No component is marked verified until a person has checked it.

5. 005

   Herdbot

   Runs a team of persistent AI bots on your own Mac through herdr. Each task goes to a harness and model from the coding-agent subscriptions you already pay for.

   • open source
6. 006

   Writing Skills

   Six editing skills for Claude Code. They cover a voice edit, Microsoft style, plain language, simplified technical English, a read-only review and a pre-draft interview.

   • open source
7. 007

   Deferred Skill Catalog

   Keeps skill descriptions out of the prompt for Pi and Claude Code and makes them searchable when a task needs one.

   • open source
8. 008

   GLiNER Browser

   A local browser CLI with persistent sessions and semantic element targeting. It is still in early development.

   • open source
9. 009

   flat-file

   A small PHP static-site generator and flat-file CMS. Pages are files and routes are file paths. One command exports the whole site as plain HTML. This site is built with it.

   • open source
10. 010

    Web Component Tools

    A PHP server-side renderer and a client-side hydration library for native web components, plus a JSX factory that is still a work in progress.

    • ssr
    • hydration
    • jsx
11. 011

    Secure Submit

    Heartland Payment Systems' JavaScript library for single-use tokenization across card-present and card-not-present merchants.

    • patent pending
12. 012

    Sap

    Toolkit for Elixir web applications to accept and respond to HTTP requests using a decision tree built with combinators.