Usefultools.Curiousexperiments.A studio powered by imagination and AI.

Building privacy-first utilities and family-driven experiments.

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The Apps

Privacy-first utilities designed to make your digital life smoother.

SaaS

Workflow Weaver

Visualise API documention. No coding; no prompting. Mermaid, Gamma.app and PDF exports.

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Live & Free

Format Ferry

Keep AI conversations coherent. Used daily to wrangle 10k+ context windows.

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Beta

When Works

Time-zone sane scheduling. No signup required.

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Would You Rather

The 10-second cure for analysis paralysis. A simple tool for faster decisions.

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The Living Room Lab

Weekend prototypes built with the kids. Playable builds, digital art, and small experiments with AI tools.

Fruit Collect

Live

A browser arcade game where you slide a basket to catch falling fruits matching a recipe, levelling up as recipes get trickier. Designed by a 10-year-old dictating gameplay, rules, palette and music to the Lovable AI agent.

React · TypeScript · Vite · Tailwind · Web Audio API
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Dungeon Survivor

Live

A Microsoft MakeCode Arcade block-based/TypeScript game developed at an after-school coding club.

MakeCode Arcade · TypeScript · Jekyll
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Block Basher

Live

Zero‑G sandbox explorer with procedural chunks and destructible physics, dreamed up by a 7‑year‑old and built together using ChatGPT Advanced Voice mode and Replit.

Engine: Kaboom.js (Migrating to Kaplay)
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Generative Gallery

Live

Digital art studies exploring colour and emotion. Created, generated and curated by my daughter, who is learning to use digital drawing tools on a tablet.

Xiaomi Pad 7: Iris Paint · Canva
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Aquatic Analytics

Coming 2026

Competitive swimming gamification and performance tracking. My eldest learning to motivate himself with his own KPIs, literally visualising his goals.

Engine: Python app · Firecrawl API · Notion database
Coming Soon

PDT-1 (Personal Digital Twin)

A multi-decade experiment in memory and longevity. Inspired by the Culture series ethos of expanded life.

"In practice, this is a private, searchable memory layer for one human life, instead of scattered notes and apps."

Architecture

Redis StreamsNeonLangflowLocal LLMs

Risk Assessor Layer

Custom action gating for safety-first operations.

Single-TenantLocal-First

The Vibe Stack

Tools we use daily to build, ship, and iterate.

Brains

ClaudeChatGPTGemini

Architects

LovableKiroReplit

Metal

Cloudflare WorkersSupabaseNeonDocker

Ops & Publishing

NotionPokeAstroPerplexity

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The Systems Blog

Published via our custom Omi → Supabase → Notion → Astro → Perplexity pipeline.

Sensory-Friendly Bedtime Routines for Neurodivergent Children

7 micro-systems that help make bedtime calmer and more predictable.

Supporting Kids' Passions Without Burning Out

Building a system to back your children's interests without paying with your own nervous system.

The Trust Covenant: AI in the living room.

Privacy & Safety in family data.

From Raw Audio to Polished Thought.

How we use OMI & Supabase.

Vibe Coding as a Family Sport.

Building together.