Build Logs

A scrollytelling piece following every cent of a $5 latte from cup to farm — and a horizontal Sankey diagram that tips down vertically and lands on a real world map, showing where each river of money actually flows.

The machine sees you — but it sees your behavior, not your intent. Part 2 of a three-part series on personal wikis and self-knowledge.

A Thriftbooks find, a Hodinkee chapter on chronographs, and a French watchmaker who built something in 1816 that the world forgot for nearly two centuries — rebuilt as a scrollytelling proof of concept.

A thought piece on Impact Chain Reasoning — the four-hop skill of tracing any work item upward to its executive consequence — and a tool I built to teach it.

I turned OpenAI's frontend design guide into a simple tool that helps translate the design language stuck in your head into effective prompts.

The strategic thinking behind building a watch auction research platform — four bets, prompt strategy, and live auction results.

580 watches, AI-powered enrichment, three-tier bid recommendations, and live auction tracking — built in an afternoon.

I built a grocery price comparison tool with Codex in one day — integrating with my existing Things app grocery list.

Exploring OpenAI's Codex ecosystem — from forking repos to building Notion MCP skills in under 30 minutes.

A data visualization project analyzing word frequency in top 100 country songs from 2000-2024.

A simple resolution: Publish More. Truth or Dare prompts, F1 Season Trackers, and the terrifying joy of building in public.

A D3JS Process Tree visualization for non-profit technology operations — built in one weekend with Codex.