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Home Energy Insight: Making Tomorrow's Energy Decisions Today
Building a unified home energy system that combines live data with forward-looking forecasts to optimise battery charging, grid imports, and appliance scheduling.
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Mobile app development, iOS, watchOS, and sensor-driven applications
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Chatsworth: Five Hundred Years of History, Six Narrative Paths
Interactive knowledge base exploring 500 years of Chatsworth House history through six interwoven narrative paths
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Wood Wide Web: Visualising the Fungal Network That Connects Trees
Interactive 3D visualisation of real mycorrhizal fungal networks using React, Three.js, and actual scientific data
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ClearRound: Learning Computer Vision Through Showjumping Videos
Building a computer vision experiment that detects jumps in equestrian footage—and learning why body shape detection is harder than vertical movement
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VCF Green Insight: Measuring the Carbon Cost of Going Software-Defined
Quantifying the embodied and operational carbon footprint of VMware Cloud Foundation infrastructure
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From Presentation Slides to Production Metrics: Actually Measuring the Carbon Cost of My Software
I gave a talk about sustainable software with nine takeaways. Then I spent years not following any of them. GreenScope is what happens when you finally put your own slides into practice.
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SeeFood: Hotdog or Not Hotdog
Building the joke app from Silicon Valley as a real iOS app using Core ML image classification—because AI made the impossible feasible
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EquiCalendar: Unifying UK Equestrian Competitions Across Scattered Sources
Building a unified competition calendar for UK equestrian riders from dozens of fragmented sources with wildly inconsistent formats
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Building LiveRail: How Claude Code Turned a Two-Hour Train Journey Into a Published App
How a frustrating evening juggling multiple apps led to building a bespoke train tracking solution with Claude Code during a delayed journey home.
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FuelRoute: From Overpaying in Sussex to a CloudFlare Worker
Building an iOS CarPlay app for UK fuel prices, then solving the rate-limited government API problem with a CloudFlare Worker proxy cache.
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Investigating Horse Gait Mathematics and Building an iOS Sensor App
How I explored the physics of horse gaits and built a two-stage classifier using iPhone and Apple Watch sensors.
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From Expired Certificate to Production HR System: Building Equestrian Venue Manager with Claude Code
How an expired SSL certificate led to building a full equestrian management system that became a production HR platform people's paychecks depend on.
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When the Perfect App Doesn't Exist: Building TableTogether Instead of Paying for Paprika 3
After years of juggling Paprika 3 and MyFitnessPal, I built the meal planning app I actually wanted. Is this the death of SaaS subscriptions, or just what AI-assisted development makes possible?
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TetraTrack: Unified Coaching Intelligence for Multi-Discipline Athletes
Building a coaching intelligence tool that gives four separate coaches unified visibility into a young athlete's training across running, swimming, shooting, and riding
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Building a Portable Real-Time Face Detection Web App with OpenCV, Flask, and Docker
Learn how to create a face recognition web application using Python Flask, OpenCV, and package it as a portal Docker image.
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NSX-T for Planespotter
NSX-T for Planespotter