About

I’m a learner, communicator, and doer. Flexible routine is the best tool we have for accomplishing goals. I write code for fun and work, and I like running to audio books.

Posts

Fine Tuning Game Sprites with Dreambooth

I used Dreambooth to fine tune Stable Diffusion to make sprites for Blastro.

Using Pulumi to Create Secure Sites

This walks through a Pulumi script to create secure HTTPS subdomains.

3D Model Search

This post walks through quality tuning on a 3D model search system.

Blastro

Blastro is a top-down 2D space shooter I made in Godot.

Seattle Times GPT

Seattle Times GPT is an experiment with the OpenAI Assistants API.

Shopify and Aardvark Hot Sauce

This post is about Shopify, Dropshipping, and selling Aardvark Hot Sauce!

Journal App

A description of how my journaling app works. tldr, I text a journal entry to a Twilio number, which POSTs it to a Lambda function and writes it to a DynamoDB table.

Design App Login

I wrote a prototype for an interior design app that, among other things, lets people create an account and chat with a designer. This system has two categories of users - clients and designers. They both login the same way, but their accounts are tagged so that the app handles them differently. This post is about how that works.

Prototype built on AWS S3, Lambda, API Gateway, RDS

I built a project prototype on AWS recently. I was looking for a few things, 1) that it persists on servers that I don’t have to maintain 2) it’s cheap to keep running, and 3) it could scale up if the project gains traction. This post focuses on the design, and less so on the app itself.

LED Light Project

A description of an LED strip controlled by a Python web server running on a Raspberry Pi.

AWS Code Pipeline

I experimented with using AWS CodePipeline to automate deploys of my projects to dedicated EC2 instances

Poker App

Poker App was a side project of mine that let me combine my interest in card games with exploring websockets.

Pong App

Pong App is an Android app I wrote that tracks Ping Pong scores.

Using CMake and swig to Connect Python to C

This post documents my experience with calling my own C library from a Python web server.

Side Channels Werewolves Project

Virtual Werewolves is a commandline multiplayer game designed to teach cybersecurity, adapted from the popular party game.

Nyan Cat Hack - How To

A writeup of how the Nyan Cat hack works.

The Story of the Nyan Cat hack

A story of a time that a hacker gained a root shell into my machine. The Nyan Cat hack.

Neural Network Class Project

This is the final project I did for a Neural Networks class.

Educational FPS Project

This project is a first person shooter game with an educational twist.