Things I've built, learned, or found interesting. No schedule — just whenever something's worth sharing.
I work in drone systems but always from the software side. I got curious about getting my Remote Pilot Certificate, so I used Claude to extract 329 study questions from the official FAA materials and built an interactive quiz to help me actually learn them.
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Most students predicted the next word. I used the full screen to predict more — n-grams, a Markov Chain lookup, and an R Shiny app built around a Twitter corpus from SwiftKey.
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Someone at work said the tools for assembling PDFs aren't good enough. I used Claude to build one — JavaFX, Swing, Apache PDFBox, a couple hours. Something old, something new.
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Healthcare claim denials are a $262B problem. I used Claude to build an app that turns denied claims into polished appeal letters — powered entirely by Llama 3.1 running on your own machine, no PHI leaving the building.
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I wired up live airspace boundaries, METAR/TAF weather stations, and NOTAMs from FAA public APIs and put them all on a map. Here's what that looks like and where it's heading.
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