A Portfolio

What's Been Built

Everything on this page was built by one house painter and an AI, working side by side. No computer science degree, no engineering background — just describing what should exist until it does. This page itself was compiled by the AI from the log it keeps of every work session.

Builds
379Logged Sessions
5Months
The Website — Cafe655.com

The website is one build — this site, the one you're on. But it's a hub, and a whole world lives inside it.

The Place Itself

The Hub

A dark-themed personal site with wings for AI writing, the painting business, Twitch, and personal life — plus site-wide search and one master list of every page that keeps the whole site organized from a single place.

The Barista Scene

The animated cafe scene at the bottom of every page: a barista pulling shots, townspeople with stories, animals, a passing train, a rotating billboard, and rare creature sightings. It began life as a Twitch stream overlay and still moonlights as one.

The Coffee Bean Hunt

A scavenger hunt hidden across the whole site — find the beans, fill an inventory, earn your place on the board.

The Back Room

The owner's console: every page on the site grouped and searchable, recently-used shortcuts that follow between devices, and the private switches.

The Front Door

A proper login system protecting every private page — one owner sign-in, one second step, no shortcuts left open.

Apps That Live on the Site

The Workshop

A daily command center that installs on the phone like an app: today's tasks, upcoming events, the next seven days of bills read straight out of a spreadsheet, a permanent list of banked wins, and analytics — all mirrored out of a Workflowy outline.

The Fortnite Sprite Tracker

Track and master every sprite in the game, trade with friends by code, and add to a shared cheat-code list the whole group maintains together. Comes with its own narrated video tutorials and a vertical social cut.

Faces

A name-memorization app for any group of people: flashcards, a quiz, a live game a whole room plays together, and an optional family tree. Built so a group can finally learn everybody's name.

The Bookshelf

A full standing bookcase of a reading life — book spines you pick up and drag to new shelves, real covers, a written page for every book, and a mantle on top holding a mug collection.

The Swim App

A training and racing tracker built for my son: practices, race times, best times, and goal times with target splits — updated after every meet.

The Overlay Generator

A drag-and-drop editor for stream overlays, thumbnails, and social graphics — frames, shapes, text, clip art, even video layers — exported as transparent images sized for streaming.

The Last Drop

A visual countdown timer: multiple dials, session timers split into named colored sections, pop-out windows, and a choice of alarms.

The Visualization Menu

Thirty-seven interactive ways to show the state of something — each with a live working sample, a plain-English explanation, and a prompt you can copy to build your own.

WebPresence

A chat room attached to the website itself — Twitch chat for a webpage — living in the navigation bar, with an owner kill switch.

The Commission Map

A private situational-awareness map a two-person church team actually works from: meeting minutes flow in, open items carry forward, and both people see the same board.

Say Less

A communication gym. It trains one skill: finding the one thing worth saying and leaving the rest out.

ClockWorks

A browser game, three versions deep, that teaches a construction project-management method by letting you play it.

The Quiz Game

A Kahoot-style live quiz built to be played by an audience during a 12-hour stream.

Tolkientide

An invented holiday season running Epiphany to February 13 — thirty-nine daily notes, four rules, a canon, a blog, and forty-six painted images — built as a public thing strangers are invited to adopt.

The Illustrated Life

A storybook memoir you scroll through like a picture book that quietly works as a resume.

Money Is Made at Walls

A long-form essay on where value actually comes from — and where the money goes when a wall comes down.

The Best Timeline

The podcast's home: its own design system, link hub, and an animated scene of the two hosts talking across their two rooms.

Barista Painting Services

The real painting business's website, rebuilt from an old email-platform site into the hub with its own dark aesthetic.

Small Wonders

The Personal Periodic Table, the One Ounce Pour, a Coolness Calculator, Life in Weeks — small pages built for the joy of it.

Pages That Teach You to Build All This

Build-It-Yourself Guides

A shelf of pages that hand a visitor the exact prompt and steps to build their own copy of these systems — the session manager, the personal knowledge database, the AI coach, the Workflowy connection, the PC skill, the video-message pipeline, the Stream Deck setup.

The Claude Code Reference Guide

A living reference for the AI tool this was all built with — checked against new releases and kept current.

The System Architecture Map

Every tool, connection, database and build in this whole operation, drawn as one map you can actually read.

The Claude Code Command Center

The Session Manager

A dashboard of every AI work session ever run — hundreds of them — with live status, what each one was for, usage gauges, activity heat maps, and a sprint board merged with the sessions actually running. A phone version reaches it through the website: press one button out in the world and a session opens on the PC at home.

The Session Log

Every session named, dated, given a goal, and its accomplishments written down. Five months of building, all on the record — this page was compiled from it.

Desktop Notifications

A see-through on-screen notice that appears when any session is waiting for an answer — never steals the cursor, never shows on stream.

The Skills Library

Dozens of custom commands that hand a brand-new session instant working knowledge of any project — so nothing ever has to be re-explained.

Remote Control by Discord

Sessions driven from the phone, with a ping when the AI is blocked and needs a decision.

A Second Opinion

OpenAI's coding agent wired in alongside Claude, available for rescue passes and adversarial reviews of finished work.

The Context Budget

A measuring tool that reports exactly what loads into an AI session the moment it starts — so the setup can be trimmed for economy.

Workflowy & Task Systems

The Workflowy Connection

Custom-built tools that let the AI read and write a 250,000-item outline — find things, create things, edit, move, complete, and sync — turning a personal outliner into a database the AI can work.

The WFx Extension

A homemade Chrome extension adding power tools to Workflowy: multi-tagging, keyboard shortcuts, visibility toggles.

The Second Brain

Curated facts from every area of life, mirrored to a database that AI on the phone, in a browser, on the desktop, and in the terminal can all reach through one connection.

The Notion Task System

A task database with cockpit views for daily driving — the predecessor that taught the lessons the Workshop was built on.

Knowledge Systems

The Personal RAG

A searchable database of everything said and written across hundreds of sessions — session logs, coaching records, notes — with a wiki layer that compiles it into pages, its own browser interface, and a family of upkeep commands. Ask it a question about your own history and it answers with citations.

The AI Coaching Database

A running profile of skills, builds, tools, pain points, and goals — consulted before new builds so the right tool gets surfaced at the right moment.

The NotebookLM Bridge

Google's NotebookLM answering questions from the terminal, grounded in uploaded source documents.

The PC Environment

A living written extract of the entire computer — hardware, software, settings, quirks — that the AI reads before touching anything on the machine.

The ForgeFlow Book

A book in development on a homemade productivity philosophy — with its own knowledge base and a reading interface for working the material.

AI Workflow Recipes

A recipe book of AI workflows, built as its own self-contained website — two versions deep.

Streaming & the Stream Deck

Claude in Stream Deck

Describe a button in plain English — "make this key launch my morning scene" — and the configuration gets written. The whole deck becomes vibe-buildable.

The OBS Integration

The AI drives the streaming software live: switching scenes, toggling sources, starting recordings — and real-time direction mid-stream ("make my facecam spin, then put it back"), with good moves promoted into permanent buttons.

Streamer.bot Builds

Chat-triggered actions and integrations for the Twitch bot, including studio light control.

The Volume Knob

The keyboard's dial rewired to turn the stream's monitor mix instead of the computer's master volume.

Stream Overlays & Toys

An always-on-top chat-bubble overlay, a chat leaderboard, a coffee-mug leaderboard, a loot-drop competition, and a soft-box light panel that runs in a browser window.

Podcast Chat Capture

Twitch chat streamed into a text file during live shows, so the interesting questions surface instead of scrolling away.

KatieBot

An AI teammate living in two Discord servers — present in the community, answering in her own voice.

Video & Media Pipelines

Lance, the Video Editor

A bridge into Adobe Premiere Pro that lets the AI see the real timeline and help build the cut — a 25-year editing colleague who happens to be software.

The Background Matting Engine

Local background removal for video, running on the machine's own graphics card — no green screen, no cloud.

Marco Polo on PC

The phone-only video-message app running on the desktop — plus a pipeline that transcribes and archives an ongoing conversation into a searchable log.

The Lip-Reading Pipeline

An attempt to recover the unrecorded half of a recorded call from the video alone, using visual speech recognition.

The Tutorial Pipeline

Narrated video tutorials produced end to end by the machine: script, British narration, real screen recording, finished cut.

podcast-os

A shared production dashboard for The Best Timeline podcast — two co-hosts, one repository, episodes moving through it.

The Audio Library Rescue

A downloader that recovered a paid-for legacy audio library whose official download links had died.

Games Off the Website

The Table

A board game designed and built with the podcast co-host — playable offline from a single file, with its own lore and log.

The LIFE GAME

Seven full iterations of a magnetic life-management board game, researched and rebuilt version over version, aimed at a six-foot blackboard on a real wall.

The Clark Brothers Adventure

A 2D interactive storybook game built from a family story, wearing 1980s arcade clothes.

The Fortnite XP Tracker

The little offline tracker that started it all — the ancestor of the Sprite Tracker line.

Tracking & Trading

The general model pulled out of the Sprite Tracker — what makes anything collectable, trackable and tradeable — with a hundred candidate subjects that fit the same shape.

Business & Money

Master Accounting

A five-entity Excel accounting system built to replace QuickBooks — transactions flow in, get categorized by nearly a hundred learned rules, post to a ledger, and reconcile against real bank statements. With a predictive cash-flow sheet looking forward.

The Bank Feed

One button, and real bank transactions land in the spreadsheet — the part of QuickBooks worth keeping, rebuilt to be owned outright.

Paint the Town

A live check-in map for a three-day outdoor painting event: artists check in from their phones, photos and pins appear on a shared real-time map, a QR poster brings people in.

The TikTok Follower Book

A follower list harvested into a spreadsheet — names, counts, content types — with weekly self-updating instructions.

The Family Budget

A household budget spreadsheet with its own written handbook — the build that taught the lessons Master Accounting was built on.

The Continuity File

An end-of-life continuity system: everything the family would need to pick things up, organized — the information first, the tooling second.

The AI Fluency Practice

A consulting business being built in the open: the curriculum, the lexicon, the roadmap — teaching people to install AI into their real work. In progress.

Daily Life Utilities

The Morning Flow

A phone app for a 4:45am routine — each step timestamped, pacing shown as you go, with a rolling two-week log.

The Traction App

A phone app for daily traction tasks — a simple checklist that resets each day with as little friction as possible.

The Habit Tracker

An offline habit tracker that runs from a single file.

The Screen Tapper

Point it at a spot on the screen and it taps there, fast and steadily, until told to stop.

The Camera Handoff

Passes the camera from one application to another without shutting anything down.

The Strength Charts

Lifting progression charts built for a friend's training.

The World Clocks

A page of world clocks, offline, from a single file.