Today I forgot an oncology checkup. Let's celebrate!
For the first time in over ten years, an oncology appointment slipped my mind completely. That's worth celebrating!
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I Build Tools
That Build Things
Developer tools built by a developer. Fast, focused, and built to solve real problems.
What We're Building
Tools designed to empower developers. From cloud infrastructure to AI orchestration.
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StageZero
Your First Cloud Deploy
Home cloud platform with Cloudflare DNS management, dynamic DNS updater, reverse proxy with Let's Encrypt SSL. Build and test on your home network—the no-cloud cloud for developers.
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TouchDown
AlphaYour AI Team, Your Rules
Open source agent orchestrator. Run a team of AI players to build code. Built to replace expensive alternatives and democratize agent orchestration for everyone.
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Specter
Coming SoonPrompt Engineering, Version Controlled
Manage prompts and spec documents as markdown in your own GitHub repo. Every save is a commit, review happens through pull requests, and a test runner turns the library into a place to engineer prompts.
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Reps
Coming SoonThe OCR Prompt Trainer
Iterate on vision/OCR prompts against a dataset of real documents. Output is scored field by field against ground truth, and every prompt revision is committed with a dataset-wide accuracy score.
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Dockerizit
BetaDocker at Native Speed
A fast, native Docker management app, fully functional on macOS today with Windows on the way. Containers, images, volumes, networks, logs, and stats in a window that opens in under a second.
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Iconizit
Strongly-Typed FontAwesome Icons
A .NET mapping of every FontAwesome icon. Strongly-typed constants give you IntelliSense autocomplete, compile-time safety, and zero typos. Reference the icon you want and move on.
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Built by Developers, for Developers
CodeLifter is proof that one person with clear focus can build what teams struggle with. No bloat, no unnecessary complexity—just solid developer tools that solve real problems. We're committed to the open source spirit and building in the open.
One person. Same quality as a team. Better focus.
About CodeLifter →From the Blog
Thoughts on developer tools, infrastructure, and building in public.
The AI tool stack I actually use every day
For years the AI coding tools didn't impress me. Then last October someone said the word 'Cursor,' and I haven't come up for air since. The honest inventory, with benchmarks.
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The work didn't go away. It moved.
Agentic coding didn't delete the work. It picked it up out of the middle of the pipeline and set it back down on the two ends. Same total, redistributed.
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