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Figuring it out.One journey at a time.

A developer's honest record of building things — products, software, hardware — without a roadmap. Documented in public so you can follow along, steal ideas, or just watch what happens.

Keychains
From a five-year-old idea to a product worth selling. · 1 post
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Goal Light
Teaching a computer to watch hockey. · 1 post
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Keychains
From a five-year-old idea to a product worth selling.

Custom car keychains in stainless steel with CNC walnut wall holders. The idea sat in my head for years. This is the attempt to actually build it.

Prototype phase 5%
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Goal Light
Teaching a computer to watch hockey.

An attempt to build real-time goal lights by detecting goals directly from live NHL broadcasts. What started as a simple idea quickly turned into a much larger project.

Broadcast detection experiments 10%
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Goal Light Build log
Deciding what to build and why

I wanted my living room to react when the Leafs score. That sounded simple until I got into it.

Keychains Build log
I had this idea for years. It started with a car I had no business loving.

The keychain concept started with a car and a feeling that everything in the automotive accessories market was either cheap or soulless.

Tutorial Tutorial
How to set up a Python virtual environment properly — and why it matters

The one thing you should do before every ML project. Takes 30 seconds and saves hours of dependency hell later.

Goal light — step by step Full journey
01 Deciding what to build and why
Build log
02 Training the model — coming soon
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