What is on the bench: what got built, how it was tested, where the hard part was.
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Checks an entire PC and writes a plain-English report on what is actually wrong.
Sweeps CPU, GPU, memory, disks, drivers, thermals, battery, and attached gear. Design goal: suppress false alarms, not maximize test count. Never applies a fix unattended.
Answers what the best product is for a job, and shows which claims it could actually verify.
Provenance is the hard part. Large retailers block automated reads. A quiet guess looks like a real check. This one separates what it read from what it could not reach.
Turns a script and a folder of clips into a finished, captioned video.
Narration is local, one sentence at a time. Caption timing is measured from rendered audio, not word-count estimates. Desktop app. Offline. No subscription in the pipeline.
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Reads an incoming job request, prices it from a rate book, and sends the quote back.
Built on my own lead flow first. Job type and size arrive structured, so pricing is a lookup. Rate book is one file a non-programmer can edit. 178 automated tests.
The method behind the consulting: how I work out what a business should actually automate.
Structured intake. Search what already exists before building. Written recommendation with costs. Allowed verdict: nothing worth automating yet, with something concrete to do this week.
Audited my own field business and found the tools were already paid for and switched off.
Job management software was live and unused: lead platform, calendar, booking hooks disconnected. Nothing to buy. Nothing to build. Most common finding: a paid tool nobody connected.
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Six software business ideas, generated under one filter and then attacked with real sources.
Filter: software is commodity. Defensible work needs accumulating data, a mandate, physical-world access, or absorbed liability. Ideas graded by source independence. Two of three strong premises failed contact with evidence.
Two dozen searches across twenty domains to find the needs nobody is serving.
Three-way incumbent check per candidate: category name, job to be done, incumbent to displace. One phrasing alone fakes empty markets. Clearest finding: tech-abuse support for domestic violence survivors. Structural labor gap, not an information gap.
Priced and compared the current AI video tools against platform policy, not against listicles.
Prices from vendor pages. Most "best AI video" lists are published by a seller. Some still ranked a discontinued product. Deciding factor: platform policy on templated output.
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The logo at the top of this page, rebuilt from a blurry 774×108-pixel image into true vector.
No sharp original existed. Rebuilt with real lines and arcs, then overlaid on the source. 95.6% ink overlap. Scales from favicon to truck door.
A full fabrication plan for a welded steel and hardwood bench, drawn step by step.
Angle-iron frame, glue-up top. 30-page plan. Dimensioned diagram every step. Two routes: welded, and no-weld. Materials include free steel sources.
Benches and solid-timber pieces, built to measure.
Benches and solid-timber pieces, built to measure for the space.
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Extending an existing soft-body vehicle simulator instead of starting another one from scratch.
Scripted inside an existing soft-body simulator, no recompile. The game CLI is the test harness. Constraint: work inside someone else's engine.
Found and patched faults in a large multiplayer modification, then rebuilt it from source.
Prove the build contains the change. A clean compile can ship none of your code. Inspect the binary against a known-good build.
A 6v6 hero shooter and a physics sandbox, both written from scratch and playable in a browser.
No engine. Nothing to install. Written against the browser. Shooter balance from measurement harnesses, not feel arguments.
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Reduced a fourteen-item supplement stack to one glass, five capsules and a shot.
From primary research, not supplement-industry copy. Fewest bottles and fewest steps conflict. All-in-ones fail capsule-volume arithmetic.
A six-figure savings target built as a model rather than a resolution.
Monthly figure is computed, not guessed. Recomputes as the start date slips. Live formulas. Assumptions visible.
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