Useful things, built for fun (and sometimes to solve real problems).

ParmiPicks

A guide to finding a genuinely good chicken parmi, with reviews, ratings, and recommendations. Built with a visual CMS so the content stays as enjoyable to manage as it is to browse.

Live and serving parmi enthusiasts.

SolarBar

Live GoodWe solar production, grid flow, and daily cost estimates in the macOS menu bar. It talks directly to the inverter over the local network using Modbus TCP, with no cloud in the middle.

Built for the solar setup at home.

AirTouchBar

Local control for a Polyaire AirTouch 2+ ducted air conditioner from macOS. It talks directly to the wall console over raw TCP, including power, modes, fan speed, setpoint, zones, and damper positions.

Verified against a real five-zone system.

Glance

An always-on iPad dashboard that rotates through on-device photos, weather, Hacker News, developer videos, and open GitHub pull requests. Everything runs on-device with no backend.

MAUI + Blazor Solution Template

A pragmatic starting point for apps that share Razor UI across web, mobile, and desktop, backed by a separate ASP.NET Core Web API and a generated typed client.

Used by developers around the world, with more than 60 GitHub stars.

Localhost HQ

A macOS menu bar app that reveals every local TCP listener, names the page running on each port, filters background noise, spots conflicts, and makes forgotten development servers easy to find.