Applied
Hands-on projects that build real skills. You'll deploy something by the end.
Building a Professional Demo Site for a School in One Weekend
I rebuilt a school's outdated website as a polished React demo — photo gallery, video montage, and GitHub Pages deploy. Here's the full build.
Audio Fingerprinting at Scale: Building a 5-Second Ambient Sound Classifier
Cairn classifies ambient sounds in 5 seconds using PANNs Cnn14 — what took Shazam years of R&D, we built as a CLI tool. Here's the architecture.
5-Stage AI Prompt Engine: Building an Automated Newsletter System
I built a 5-stage prompt pipeline that generates, formats, and publishes AI newsletters automatically — from topic research to final HTML.
How I Deployed 90+ AI Agents with Zero Repetitive Clicking
I built 90+ specialized AI agents on Open WebUI. A bash script handles auth, knowledge upload, profile image, and model creation — no manual UI work.
Building a Home Lab Dashboard with Preact, Express 5, and SQLite
dankMire is my personal command center — a lightweight dashboard for tracking projects, managing media assets, and monitoring my home lab.
Selective Face Recognition for Documentary Privacy
I built a face recognition system that identifies specific people and blurs everyone else — protecting documentary subjects' privacy in real-time.
Real-Time AI Typing Coach — Building ZenoType
ZenoType is a typing practice app that uses a local AI model to generate custom prompts — including a Scripture mode. Built with vanilla TypeScript and Ollama.
Bandwidth Monitoring with vnstat and systemd Timers
I built a bandwidth alerting system that warns me before I blow through my ISP's data cap. vnstat tracks usage, a Python script checks thresholds, and systemd fires it every hour.