Giving SpendSeer a Paper Makeover
Why I swapped SpendSeer's serious navy-and-gold look for a paper notebook style with stickers, tape, and a little confetti, now that I'm building it for me.
Read note →NOTES ON SOFTWARE, SIDE PROJECTS, AND USEFUL EXPERIMENTS.
Ideas, build logs, and lessons from a curious maker.
LATEST NOTES
Redesigning This Site with AI
Why I gave the site a full sketchbook-style makeover, how easy it was to experiment with AI, and why you still have to check the work.
Read note →MORE NOTES
Piecing together a custom heater setup for my backyard pool
How SpendSeer changed after launch, from the original yearly overview to better imports, recurring payment detection, loan reviews, goal context, and operational polish.
How I tested whether server-local AI could handle financial document extraction well enough to avoid relying on a large hosted model API.
What I learned turning a homelab budgeting tool into my first paid SaaS, and why the post itself got delayed.
Building my own Kubernetes deployment platform driven by Git webhooks to simplify deploying all my side projects, and what I learned about AI-assisted development along the way.
ABOUT
I'm Jason — a software engineer, maker, and lifelong tinkerer.
I write about side projects, useful tools, and whatever I'm learning along the way.
