The Lab

Tools I build and use. Each one is built with AI agents — I set the direction, make the calls, and review the work.

Agents & AI tooling

3 projects · Systems that put AI and automation to work.
War Chest

War Chest

A searchable, scored index of 369 AI agent skills gathered from GitHub, with an install-kit exporter.

Claude Instruct

Claude Instruct

Builds Claude project instructions from a library of best-practice rule blocks.

DSM New Business

DSM New Business

New Des Moines metro business registrations from official state data, compiled monthly by an automated pipeline.

Creative tools

1 project · Tools for making things.

Driftloop

A ComfyUI node pack that turns a still image into a looping effects video — camera moves, smoke, rain, glow — to loop under audio.

in progress

Infrastructure & hardware

4 projects · The self-hosted stack everything else runs on.
FLIGHT DECK

FLIGHT DECK

A self-hosted dashboard framework where every widget is a folder you can copy, edit, and share.

in progresscase study →

server-alpha

A repurposed mini-ITX machine running always-on data pipelines, reached over Tailscale.

running

Outpost

A rebaseable fork of the Outline team wiki, self-hosted, with AI features running against a local model.

in progress

M1 Meshtastic

A port of a Meshtastic mesh-radio client to the Monstatek M1, including a new firmware UART primitive.

public reporepo

What's in progress this month: the now list.