— Personal
Side projects, separate from my professional work at Yale — built on my own time, using AI as a pair programmer to solve real problems at home. Each write-up is honest about what the AI handled and what I directed and decided.
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Problem: I wanted a fast way to track spending by week without a subscription app or a spreadsheet I'd never open.
Approach: A single-page app that logs expenses, buckets them by category, and shows a weekly summary with a simple chart.
Problem: Getting ready for our first baby, my wife and I knew we'd need a shared source of truth. Feeds, sleep, and diaper changes are easy to lose track of at 3 a.m., and "when was the last feeding?" is a hard question to answer from memory. Once daycare entered the picture, the problem grew: we needed to compare what happened at home with what happened during the day to spot real patterns. Also again, we did not want yet another subscription.
Approach: An offline-first PWA with big tap targets, timestamped logs, and a daily view to spot patterns.