Building & Automation

Build logs, small ML experiments, and personal automation projects.

• I tried to predict gold prices with a trend line. It lost to doing nothing.

  A fitted least-squares line on ten years of gold-in-rand data. Tested against the dumbest possible baseline. The baseline won by 23 points, and the reason why is the actual lesson.

  July 24, 2026

• A five-file pipeline instead of opening an app

  I didn't want to open the Garmin Golf app to see my own scores. So I wrote five small files instead. The lessons generalize to any hobby data you're tempted to just check in an app.

  July 22, 2026

• Golf Shot Analyzer for InRange™

  340 InRange shots visualised: trajectory arcs, genuine mishits, and what an Excel export can tell you once you can see every shot at once.

  May 11, 2026

• Building advanced chat interfaces with the Zeta Alpha API

  Building a RAG chat interface on the Zeta Alpha API: retrieval modes, clickable citations, and file references, in React with Tailwind and shadcn.

  March 26, 2025

• Writing your first AI model with PyTorch and Torchvision

  Training a ball detector with PyTorch and Torchvision: a Faster R-CNN, random video frames, and a human-in-the-loop calibration file.

  January 27, 2025