Coding

No screen, no jump scare, no monster to show. Writing horror for Alexa stripped fear down to pacing, silence, and the dark the listener fills in themselves.

A year of letting AI agents run my dev workflow. What they are genuinely good at, where they fail confidently, and the guardrails that make them useful.

The dungeon is the easy part. Building a text adventure game engine taught me the hard half is teaching the machine to listen to what players actually say.

WhatSphere, DecodeGov, Swiss Army Dev — the tools and apps I build when I'm not writing novels. A short introduction to each.

I built 37 developer tools on Cloudflare Workers after watching JSONFormatter leak five years of credentials. Here's the architecture: V8 isolates, zero-knowledge encryption, and sub-50ms response times on five npm dependencies.

I built 37 developer tools after watching JSONFormatter leak 80,000 files worth of credentials. Here are the six I actually reach for every single day — and why privacy-first matters more than features.

I spent a Saturday night wrestling with USAspending.gov's API and came out the other side with DecodeGov — 11 adapters, 6 federal agencies, and zero incremental hosting cost.

I built a system that plays my games thousands of times. The data broke every assumption I had — UX problems outnumbered bugs 2:1, and I'd been designing for the wrong player all along.

37 browser-based developer tools. No tracking. No cookies. No ads. Here's every tool on Swiss Army Dev and which ones I actually use.