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What I'm
Building

Nights-and-weekends software — self-hosted, built for my own family and friends, and headed toward open source. The same engineering standards as the day job, applied to problems small enough to actually finish.

Project 01 · Events In use · open-sourcing *eventually

Party Invite App

Self-hosted invitations and RSVPs, with no corporate platform in the middle.

A web app for running private events end to end. Create a party with a poster, invite guests privately by passcode-protected link — or open registration to let them sign themselves up — then collect RSVPs with adult and child head counts, guest lists, and notes, all managed from an admin console.

Built security-first, because event data is personal: argon2id-hashed passcodes, signed httpOnly sessions, a CSRF token on every mutation, RSVP responses encrypted at rest, login lockout after repeated failures, and a full admin audit log. Role-based admin accounts with granular permissions. Ships as a Docker Compose stack with encrypted backups.

NodeFastifySQLiteTypeScriptAngularMaterialTailwindDocker
  • Private passcode invites & open self-registration
  • RSVP with adult/child counts & guest lists
  • Poster upload — portrait & landscape
  • Granular admin roles & permissions
  • Encrypted-at-rest guest data
  • Email / SMS invite sharing
Project 02 · Household In use · open-sourcing *eventually

Family Status Board

A shared kanban board for the whole household.

A self-hosted task board for family and personal work: shared kanban columns, recurring and scheduled tasks with rotation between family members, per-user accounts and roles, and an installable, mobile-first PWA so it lives on everyone's phone. Points, rewards, approval flows, and streaks turn chores into something the kids actually engage with.

A sibling to the party app, sharing the same conventions — cookie-session plus CSRF auth, encrypted-at-rest PII, in-code forward-only migrations, encrypted SQLite backups, and Gitea CI/CD. Tags, email notifications, and per-user themes round it out. Runs on the Bun runtime end to end.

BunFastifybun:sqliteAngularSignalsMaterialTailwindPWADocker
  • Shared kanban for family & personal tasks
  • Recurring / scheduled tasks with rotation
  • Points, rewards & approval flows
  • Per-user accounts, roles & themes
  • Streaks, tags & email notifications
  • Installable mobile-first PWA
Project 03 · Learning In progress · early UAT

Family Music Recaps

Turning weekly lesson notes into real practice material.

The newest of the three — coding has started and it's in early UAT, actively iterating. A single-family app that turns a kid's weekly music-lesson notes into AI-generated practice exercises, complete with real notation, guitar tab, chord diagrams, and audio playback (all via abcjs), across violin, piano, and guitar.

Parents administer student profiles and lesson logs; kids log each lesson in their own words and request new exercises. Claude enriches the raw notes into concept tags and kid-friendly memory aids, and generates exercises that build on lesson history instead of repeating it. Working name for now — Family Music Recaps.

BunFastifySQLiteAngularabcjsClaude API
Screenshots soon

In active UAT right now — the UI is still moving too fast to screenshot. Shots go up once it settles.

These are personal projects, built and self-hosted on my own infrastructure. Open-source releases are planned as they stabilize.