Cabinet 05 · Field notes
Twelve preserved project stories about useful software, unnecessary hardware, AI experiments, animals, and the occasional honest failure.
Which Games Should You Actually Be Watching on Sunday? There aren’t many things in life that I’m very good at. But the few things I am? You better believe I’ll let you know. Fantasy football is at the top of that list. My dad taught me the game. He’s been at it for 30 years,…
Open field noteFondsworth: Your AI HubSpot Butler, Built from CRM Pain and Pure Spite! Let me just say this up front: I’ve built a lot of dumb projects in my day. Clocks that yell obscenities when you stare at them. Frogs that resist interrogation in a web browser. AI image generators that put my dogs in bizarre…
Open field noteI love my fiancée. I love my family. I love my friends. I do not love spending 40 seconds wrestling pop-ups just to watch the 12-second video they DM’d me. TikTok’s mobile web experience feels like it was engineered by the same demons that invent airport Wi-Fi logins: endless “Open in App!” nags, muted audio,…
Open field noteApologies in advance, I know it has been a while since I last updated you. Things have been crazy with work and real life stuff, I haven’t had as much downtime as I want to be able to build cool shit. I’m working on some things that will make for some great content down the…
Open field noteIf you’ve read my blog at all, you know my projects tend to follow a particular theme: absurd ideas, questionable tech choices, aggressive AI usage, and animals. Especially animals. Why animals? Honestly, no clue. I started writing these blog posts and realized that there are a lot of animal references. It’s like I have a…
Open field noteJBigs Supply What started as a 2AM idea for a novelty t-shirt has spiraled into a full blown clothing line. Enter the JBigs Supply — my fashion outlet. Before I dive deep into the tech/automation aspect, I want to call out that 100% of the profits from this project will be donated to the Breakthrough…
Open field noteAnyone who has worked in sales knows that dreaded feeling: picking up the phone to make a call, only to realize you’ve interrupted someone’s dinner because you misjudged their time zone. I’ve experienced it firsthand on both ends—accidentally calling contacts at terrible hours and being the annoyed contact receiving those calls. So I decided to…
Open field noteAI models but they generate images of your dogs, and its like ridiculously easy to make. How freaking awesome is that? The Idea It all started like 8 months ago when FLUX.1 by Black Forest Labs was blowing up. If you’re unfamiliar, FLUX.1 is this badass open-source image generation model known for its surprisingly good…
Open field noteSome projects are built to solve real problems. Some are built just because they’re funny. Mean Clock is a completely unnecessary invention that firmly belongs in the second category. It’s a clock that detects when you’re staring at it and starts screaming obscenities at you. The Idea This all started because I went on a…
Open field noteLeague Lingo was a project I started a few weeks before the start of the NFL regular season in 2024. The goal was to create income by selling hyper-personalized AI generated newsletters for Fantasy Football leagues. This project was ultimately a failure that I learned a lot from. The Idea I love fantasy football….
Open field noteErnie the Snail is a game I’m building inspired by a very old (but still legendary) Reddit thread. Back in 2014, someone posed this question: You and a super-intelligent snail both get 1 million dollars and become immortal. However, the snail always knows where you are and slowly crawls toward you forever. If it touches…
Open field noteZipCode AutoFill was a project I started in late 2024. The goal was to create a passive income stream while simplifying location data in HubSpot. The Problem At previous jobs, I was tasked with being the HubSpot Administrator. I took this a step further and later started my own HubSpot consulting company. After working inside…
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