Data is design and design is product
Models read what you named and can generate the interface from it. The noun list is now the first design decision.
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Product, design and the data layer underneath: what got shipped, how and what it cost.
Ten plates, one recipe
Forktales started as a recipe box for friends and became a feed of what they are up to. Eight things I did differently building it, from specs and token pricing to an animated hero and a game.
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Building a better camper
The abettercamper.com case study: a campsite finder for British Columbia, built data layer first, in about a hundred hours.
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Building my own coach
A local-LLM fitness tracker I built on Garmin data for the numbers I wanted: route rankings across years, cardiac drift and a coach I can talk to.
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The site that taught me everything
R4NT was a Calgary online magazine I started in my early twenties and ran for nine and a half years. It pushed me harder than I knew I could be pushed, and everything I do now is downstream of it. This month I brought it back online.
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