Workshop

I’ve got a Uniden Bearcat BCT125 radio scanner. Old Windows apps exist to program and control it. I thought I would build a platform agnostic way of doing everything the Windows apps do. I’m close to a beta, and will be sharing it when it’s ready.

Bearpaw, but smaller. The Uniden is a pain to hook up to my car’s aux input, so I’m building a scanner that’s half the size and connects over Bluetooth.

Started playing with Meshtastic last fall. It’s a communication tool, and the silence threw me — nobody was communicating on it. So I stood up a Discord and a website for the Kansas City mesh. The Discord is almost two hundred people now.

kansascitymesh.live · Discord

Apple Music had me in a rut. I exported my listening history and used Claude to train the algorithm out of it. West African desert blues and Brazilian music started showing up in rotation.

Most active in the spring, sometimes the fall. The other entries on this page are what radio looks like for me — building, not hopping on the air to talk about our collectively bad backs.

Technician licensed, General on the study pile. · QRZ

My personal design system, on npm. Tokens, typography, a handful of utility patterns.

The one thing I’m consistently working on. Check back on me in a few months to see how consistent I’ve been.

The freelance practice. UX strategy, product design, the occasional weird project.

A desktop app for sending images over ham radio. Got distracted by Meshtastic. The code is still there.

Shelved, not abandoned.

Home Assistant runs the house. Claude Cowork glues together whatever doesn’t natively talk. I break something here roughly once a month.

Home Assistant