I'm a self-taught developer. I care about understanding what the code is doing, making deliberate product decisions, and cleaning up the rough edges before I call something done.
Most of my earlier projects were web apps because Next.js gave me a fast way to turn ideas into something real. More recently I've been spending time with native macOS development in Swift and SwiftUI too.
I like software that feels simple on the surface. The interesting part for me is usually everything underneath that makes the simple version possible.
ZipMello is a Swift 6 ZIP and CBZ library I built while working on a personal Mac manga reader. It focuses on fast archive access, page reads, and reader-focused workflows.
BrewPulse is a native macOS menu bar app for Homebrew. I started it because I forget to check package updates and would rather use a clean Mac interface than work in Terminal for routine maintenance.
The Free client and Homebrew core are open source.
One of the things that pushed me toward coding was reading the source code of a tool for a game I played. I wanted to understand how it worked, then I wanted to change things, then I wanted to build my own stuff.
That is still pretty much how I learn now.
I'm open to talking about interesting projects, especially small products and web work where I can stay close to the actual problem.