Some people have ideas.
I make mine work.
Native apps. Private systems. Tools that earn their place. Conceived, designed, and engineered by me.
Step inside the workDon’t just look.
Put something to the test.
Build things that deserve to exist. Make them work. Make them matter.
Real encryption. Right here in your browser.
Sample content only · key stays in this tab · resets on reload
This is a real, local AES-256-GCM experiment using your browser’s Web Crypto API. Locker Drop uses libsodium’s XChaCha20-Poly1305 secretstream for file transfers. This smaller experiment demonstrates authenticated encryption—not Drop’s upload service, expiry, or a security audit. Only predefined samples are used; nothing is uploaded or saved.
Read the transfer architecture ↗Different problems. The same obsession:
make the whole thing work beautifully.
A private inbox built around your Mac. On-device AI, local semantic search, and a place to think before you act.
Inside Locker ↗Visit inbox.locker ↗The prototype is ready. Can we walk through it Thursday?
“Done.”
What actually passed?
plumb finds what a repository declares, runs a check, and reports what the evidence supports. Including when it cannot tell you.
Read the engineering ↗plumbing.sh ↗
LESS FRICTION.A pin, a photo, a problem worth fixing. Residents report from a browser. Cities get structured information they can actually use.
Explore Pin311 ↗pin311.com ↗Graphics, retrieval, and family safety.
A native way to build local agents. Start with a trigger, choose what it may do, and look for evidence that it happened. Use AI when a step actually needs intelligence.
The SwiftUI prototype currently exposes file organization. Broader agent creation and external-agent connections are still being built.
Explore the prototype ↗
I’m Nathan. A father, firefighter, and software engineer in Independence, Missouri. I build the things I wish existed—and take responsibility for how they work after they ship.
Family safety. A neighborhood marketplace. A graphics engine. Tools that help other people build. The problems change. The care doesn’t.
“The work has to hold up
when someone depends on it.”
The interface, the engine, the diagnostic pipeline. What happens underneath is part of the experience.
Privacy in the architecture. Safety margins in the math. Test the claim before putting it on the page.
A failed hypothesis is useful. A beautiful number from a broken test is not. Publish the limits, too.
Volunteer firefighter and lieutenant at Perkasie Fire Company. Chief’s Award, 2022. The discipline behind the software starts here.
PayCheck Budget starts at the kitchen table. A real household constraint becomes a native app, Apple Watch companion, and a rule: do not call a purchase affordable if it leaves the family with nothing.
GoKC, a multilingual Kansas City guide, is featured by KCTV5 and Fox4 KC ahead of the World Cup.
ScreenStage turns a custom Metal engine into a creative tool. prepass tests code retrieval against outside issues. The completion-gate study rejects its original hypothesis—and leads to plumb.