The Scratch Pad
Everything here started as “I wonder if AI can do this in an evening.” Some of it works, some of it is held together with hope. I keep them in the open because the interesting part isn’t the finished thing, it’s what building it taught me about where these tools help and where they quietly fall over.
Beginner Surf Check
A go/no-go call for a beginner surfer on the Surf Coast. It scores the next week across Point Roadknight, Anglesea, Cosy Corner and Torquay Surf Beach, then picks the actual time windows worth paddling out in.
- Claude
- Open-Meteo Marine API
- Vanilla JS
The Second Arrow
A designed one-pager on emotional non-reactivity, drafted with AI and reviewed line by line. An experiment in using AI for the first draft of something I actually wanted to keep.
- Claude
- GitHub Pages
Lighting Look Books
Builder look books hand you a lighting "allowance" with no way to tell what anything actually costs. This pulls six of them apart into 368 unique SKUs, matches each one against Beacon Lighting's live catalogue, and puts the two prices side by side — with the original page scans to check it against.
- Claude
- Node.js
- Playwright
- Beacon Lighting API
- Vanilla JS
Teleprompter
Films you on your phone while the script scrolls over the live camera preview, so your eyes stay on the lens instead of darting off to read. The recording comes out clean — the text is only ever on the screen, never burned into the file. Installs as a PWA, no backend, no accounts.
- Claude
- Vite
- TypeScript
- MediaRecorder API
- Cloudflare Workers