What actually replaces a coal job?
The Hunter Valley is Australia's largest coal-to-renewables transition zone. Everyone talks about green jobs. I decided to count them.
Read more →Writing
How I think about problems, what I build, and why finishing is harder than starting.
Projects
I almost bought that apartment
How a real estate decision in Newcastle led to Newy Vibes — a property intelligence tool that shows what's really happening around any address.
Read more →My son thinks it's ok
How a dad who knows two knots built a fishing conditions app for Newcastle — and quietly turned it into an AI visibility experiment.
Read more →The SEO expert who never left the dashboard
How a frustration with dashboard culture led to Weekly Google Insights — a tool that tells you what to do, not what to look at.
Read more →Under the hood
I built everything above. These I built for myself. Same approach, different audience: me.
The tool that tells me no
A swing trading scanner for the ASX that mostly tells me to do nothing — and that's exactly why it works.
Read more →One button, five destinations
How a single button on my iPhone captures voice memos and routes them to blogs, notes, journals, tasks, or calendar entries — all processed locally.
Read more →The invoice that writes itself
A CLI tool that turns calendar entries into invoices, tracks payments, and generates tax reports — no AI required.
Read more →The receipts can wait
A personal finance tool that watches my inbox, reads my receipts, and sorts them for tax — so I can go for a walk instead.
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