Stuff

Stuff we built & learned

Deep dives into things we've actually shipped: products, experiments, and open source. What we built, what broke, and what it taught us. Occasionally featuring a dead comedian.

Getting a Phone Call From Norm Macdonald

An AI voice agent that answers real phone calls with a cloned voice, running almost entirely on a Mac mini.

Ruby · Python · baresip · mlx-whisper · Qwen3-TTS · Grok · voip.ms

The Heartbeat Economy: Local Models for Always-On Monitoring

Why we moved our agents' routine monitoring checks off cloud APIs and onto a 3B model running on a Mac mini, and what broke along the way.

Ollama · Llama 3.2 3B · Mac mini · OpenClaw

Fitify: Fitness for People Who Hate Fitness

Micro-workouts disguised as normal life. Designed, built, and launched solo in a few weeks. No spandex required.

Rails 8 · Turbo · Stimulus · SQLite

Fitnito: Gym Scheduling That Replaced a $500/Month Tool

How a local gym's overpriced enterprise scheduling system became a simple, affordable SaaS now used by gyms across Canada.

Ruby on Rails · SaaS

Building a Channel Plugin for OpenClaw

How to extend an AI agent with a custom channel plugin, from zero to installed in under an hour, based on building DashBot.

TypeScript · Node.js · Vitest · OpenClaw

RAG for Health System Planning

Using Retrieval Augmented Generation to turn a health system's proprietary data into a question-answering tool, without training a model from scratch.

Retrieval Augmented Generation · LLMs · Healthcare data