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A restored grey rotary telephone containing a Raspberry Pi audio player.

PiPhone: A Rotary Telephone That Plays Random Poems

I put a Raspberry Pi and I2S amplifier inside a rotary telephone. Lifting the handset picks a poem from a public audio feed and plays it through the phone speaker.

A desk setup with VS Code and a Philips Hue lamp flashing as a status indicator for Codex.

Using a Philips Hue Lamp for Codex Task Notifications

A small PowerShell integration that makes my Philips Hue desk lamp flash when a Codex task finishes in VS Code.

A screenshot of my frontend developer portfolio homepage built with Astro.

How This Portfolio Is Built with Astro, Tailwind, and GSAP

Why I built this portfolio with Astro, Tailwind CSS, and small GSAP interactions instead of a large client-side app.

Illustration of PasiLunch fetching and displaying restaurant menus in Slack and on a web dashboard.

Rebuilding PasiLunch for Messy Restaurant Menus

I rebuilt a Slack lunch bot into a small web service that scrapes Pasila restaurant menus and normalises them into one usable format.

Illustration of a lunch table with various dishes, representing LunchBot project.

Building a Slack Lunch Bot with Node.js and Cheerio

I built a small Node.js bot that collects local lunch menus and posts them in Slack.

A collection of book covers displayed on a digital screen.

Using Google Books Covers in an Astro Site Without Depending on Google at Runtime

A small Google Books lookup and local cover-cache workflow for the book sections on this site.

Pixoo display showing a chess rating.

Showing My Chess Rating on a Pixoo Display

A small Python script that fetches my Chess.com rating and shows it on a Pixoo pixel display on my shelf.

Spotify top tracks section displayed on a website

Making a Spotify Top 10 Less Repetitive

I fetch my Spotify top tracks, then keep one track per primary artist so the homepage does not show the same album cover five times.