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PROJECTS 5 entries

0x0105 PBS A CLI for the unglamorous end of Danish banking — generate a fixed-width PBS enrollment file, verify every line is exactly 128 characters, and send it to the bank over SFTP. With a full Danish CPR validator built in. pythonclisftp 2026.07
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0x0103 Kislings A café's whole digital counter in one app — a two-track loyalty card, coffees, recipes and events — on a PocketBase backend the owner edits themselves, updating the app in real time. pocketbasereact-nativerealtime 2026.07
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0x0102 Minimalist A calm, editorial iOS app for easing into living with less — the 30-day game, the 16 rules, a guided what-to-keep flow and a 30/30 wait timer, all feeding one shared log. swiftswiftuiios 2026.07
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0x0101 Atlas of Armed Conflict An interactive terminal globe charting the world's active wars — spin the planet, hover a country, search for a war, and pull a dossier on each conflict. Built with d3-geo + canvas; figures are public estimates. d3canvasdataviz 2026.06
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0x0104 LendDesk A command-line lending desk for a school — loan items against a scannable token, take them back, see what's out and overdue. Stores actions, not state, so history is never lost. pythonclisqlite 2026.04
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WRITING 3 entries

0x0201 We Are Using AI Wrong — And We Are Building It Without a Plan Two things that don't sit comfortably together. AI is the most impressive technology I've ever seen and almost nobody uses it properly — they outsource the task instead of amplifying the person. And we are building something we don't know how to control, fast, and we may not get a second attempt. aiagisafety 2026.07
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0x0202 [ ESSAY TITLE ]draft One-line abstract. learning 2026.05
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0x0203 [ ESSAY TITLE ]draft One-line abstract. toolsworkflow 2026.03
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NOTES 2 entries

0x0301 [ DEV-LOG NOTE ]draft A short, dated fragment — a thing learned, a bug squashed, a TIL. Notes stay terse. til 2026.06
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0x0302 [ DEV-LOG NOTE ]draft Another short fragment. tildebugging 2026.06
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META 3 entries

0x0401 about the author Who's behind fireatwill — the short bio, the long version, the colophon. read → 0x0402 now — current focus What I'm building, reading and thinking about this month. read → 0x0403 links / repos GitHub, email, Signal — the rest of the footprint. open →