The Journal
Writing
Essays and notes on design, technology, sustainability, and building software.
- K.I.M. — A Top-Down Shooter in 30 Minutes I vibe-coded a top-down arcade shooter inspired by Toaplan's Twin Hawk in about half an hour — Phaser 3, free Kenney…
- I Prompted My Way to a Published Game in 2 Weeks How I built Siegebox — an isometric tower defense game with 46 towers, a level builder, multiplayer, and a community…
- Building AI Into Buildings — Without Sending Data to San Francisco Senbee uses AI to make buildings smarter. But when your customers are European, you can't just pipe their data through…
- I Built a SaaS Company in 3 Weekends Using AI How I built Noteshelf.app — a full note-taking platform with payments, native apps, an admin panel, and a marketing…
- Bringing eSheep Back to Life on macOS A short story about rebuilding the classic desktop sheep for modern macOS, and why tiny pointless software can still be…
- The Best Books I Have Read in 2025 A diverse reading year filled with classics, thrillers, sci-fi, essays, and poetry—highlighting everything from…
- I Was Impressed. Then Dependent. Now, I’m Worried. When powerful AI tools started going mainstream, it felt like a breakthrough. In 2023, we watched in awe as models…
- Accessible Toggle Buttons Toggle buttons are a pleasant interface for toggling a value between two states, and offer the same semantics and…
- A Dead-Simple URL Shortener API Description
- Saying goodbye to ColorDrop Marking the end of a decade-long journey with ColorDrop as it finds a new home—reflecting on its impact and celebrating…
- A Milestone for a Greener Web Celebrating 1 million website scans with CO2 Observer—a major step toward digital sustainability, marked by a $1,000…
- The Best Books I Have Read in 2024 A personal roundup of the most memorable books read in 2024—ranging from sci-fi epics and timeless classics to poetry,…
- A Lesson Learned the Hard Way Reflections on the realization that technology alone isn’t enough—true success comes from building trust,…
- Launching Particle Firework Introducing ParticleFirework.js — a lightweight framework for adding customizable particle effects to your website with…
- Announcing Senbee Announcing Senbee - a unified platform for managing services across providers, built to simplify operations through…