Brand-aware location reminders without a custom geocoder
I wanted to add "remind me when I'm at any Walmart" to a location-reminder feature, alongside the existing "remind me when I get home" pin-based…
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Three permission dialogs for a working safety app on Android
A safety app I shipped for personal use on Android needs three distinct runtime permissions to actually do its job. Walking a first-time user through…
Read →Door unlock on iPhone SOS when Apple won't expose the event
I wanted my front door to unlock automatically when my iPhone or Watch triggered Emergency SOS or Fall Detection. The catch is that Apple does not expose…
Read →A 200KB Windows tray app for passive activity check-ins
The macOS companion for a personal safety app I run does one small thing: every five minutes, if the user was active in the last minute, it POSTs a…
Read →A risk email every fifteen minutes about nothing
The risk-monitor cron on a side project I run was emailing me every 15 minutes with "risk factor appeared" or "risk factor resolved" for low-severity…
Read →Heartbeats were polluting my activity table
The phone in a side-project safety app posts a stationary_heartbeat every few minutes when it's not moving — so the server knows the device is alive even…
Read →FreezeGuard: a Windows UWF agent shipped as a service
I shipped a small side-project that wraps Windows' Unified Write Filter (UWF) — the feature that lets you "freeze" a system drive so nothing written to…
Read →An inventory app for a family craft business
A family member runs a craft-supply brand and needed a product inventory catalog. I built one weekend project: a public catalog page, an admin page, and…
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