i like to make stuff
product at the browser company. past lives at instagram, spotify, foursquare, and filament. outside of work i record and edit hockey highlight videos, illustrate way too many birds, and really enjoy getting lost in learning new things.
While I was learning Procreate, this king of hearts was one of my first projects. Friends and family encouraged me to keep going and draw the rest of the face cards. From there my wife was like, let's get these printed.
What started as an excuse to draw more birds turned into figuring out printing, packaging, and how Etsy works. Now the cards are a hit at the holidays and have even been sold in a store in my neighborhood.
Etsy shop
A blackjack-meets-bingo game built on my bird playing cards. It started as a weekend project to learn Claude Code. Straight blackjack with no money on the line turned out to be kind of boring, so I borrowed a little from Balatro and layered a second game on top.
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A daily feed of what's actually happening on my block. A construction fence that appeared overnight, a restaurant that closed, a film crew blocking the sidewalk. The info is all in the city's open data, but it's scattered across a dozen agency websites.
It pulls from nine NYC data sources and ten local news feeds, then uses Claude to turn bureaucratic city records into headlines a person would actually read.
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I'm a Liberty season ticket holder, so of course the bird shop sells Liberty stuff too. Shirts and stickers, drawn when a moment hits and printed on demand, so I can go from idea to listing in a day or two. Stew York is the one that's stuck around. The rest come and go with the roster.
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