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• 2026-07-07Why my outreach tool is not allowed to send emailbuildingdesign decisions
  I built a tool that drafts every follow-up for me, and the first rule I gave it was that it can never hit send. Here's why that constraint made it better.
• 2026-06-28Chasing a 1947 trolley with a cron jobtransitbuilding
  Philadelphia still runs vintage PCC streetcars, but only sometimes. I built an app that watches for them, and along the way it started keeping records SEPTA never publishes.
• 2026-06-15My content management system is an Excel spreadsheetnycbuildingdesign decisions
  My NYC trivia finder runs on one HTML file and a spreadsheet, and I think that's the correct architecture. A small defense of boring tools.