·8 min read
claude-second-brain: A Second Brain That Outlives the Apps
I stopped picking the perfect notes app and built a convention instead - a folder of plain markdown any tool, including Claude, can read and write.
Hey, I'm Don
Software developer, tech enthusiast, and occasional over-thinker. I've been writing code since the days when 56k was fast and BBSes were the social networks. Welcome to my corner of the internet.
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·6 min read
mysmart.garden: An AI Gardener for People Who Kill Plants
I built mysmart.garden, an AI companion that knows my whole garden - daily briefings, weather alerts, rain auto-logging, and photo diagnosis from a chat.
·3 min read
Model Madness: Same Prompt, Four Answers
I asked Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and Grok for NCAA Tournament bracket predictions. Same prompt, same day, four different champions. Now we watch.
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milk.tools: From Teaching Claude to Remember to Taming the Noise
What started as an MCP server for Claude Code's memory turned into a suite of tools - because solving one problem always creates another.
·6 min read
Mom, Meet Claude
A dream about my late mother running away from AI sparked some unexpected reflection on how much technology has changed - and what she might have thought about it all.
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