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Deeper dives into past projects, lessons learned, and the product thinking behind the builds.

NoteBucket: Lessons from Building an Offline-First Semantic Note Organizer
IsaacJune 20269 min

NoteBucket: Lessons from Building an Offline-First Semantic Note Organizer

Why I built it, the all-night rabbit hole that went nowhere, the pivot that saved the project, the bug that taught me about edge cases, and what I'd do differently next time.

Android
AI/ML
Open Source
Local-First
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Barcode Lists: A Shared Workflow for Calgary Coop
IsaacJune 202610 min

Barcode Lists: A Shared Workflow for Calgary Coop

A Monday-morning scanning problem turned into a shared Chrome extension with AI-powered OCR, realtime sync, and 24 commits of iteration over three months.

Chrome Extension
AI/OCR
Internal Tool
Realtime
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D4C: Building a Personalized Coding Agent on Top of Pi
IsaacMay 20268 min

D4C: Building a Personalized Coding Agent on Top of Pi

How I forked the pi coding agent and added plan/build modes, permanent MCP servers, and an /update skill that preserves customizations across upstream syncs.

AI
Dev Tools
Open Source
Agent
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