Made The Finance Terminal, a rich text editor for making screenshots that look like they came off a trading desk terminal. Write or paste anything and download it as a picture, in that distinctive ugly orange on black.
Made The Finance Terminal, a rich text editor for making screenshots that look like they came off a trading desk terminal. Write or paste anything and download it as a picture, in that distinctive ugly orange on black.
Graded 17 Wall Street predictions about the Cybertruck, from the 2019 unveil to the 2023 delivery launch, against what actually sold.
Built an AI Brand Studio, the successor to my old branding page. Describe an app and Claude suggests promo text, a color palette and icons, including icons it draws itself as SVG. You can then restyle the palette with a plain prompt (“make it more Miami Vice”) and undo back through every palette you've tried. It outputs the square logos, store promo tiles and banners an app listing needs.
Made Resigns, a daily chess game for the web — each day starts from a real game at the moment a grandmaster resigned, and you take the winner's side and have to finish it by checkmating Stockfish, which plays on for the loser. Three chances a day, with shareable results.
Made Drug Scrabble, an unofficial Scrabble dictionary that also accepts brand-name drugs. It's a joke, but a functional one.
Built Stripe MRR, a macOS menu bar app that keeps your Stripe monthly recurring revenue in view, refreshed every few hours. Open source on GitHub.
Released Data Extractor for Tableau by Table Capture, a Chrome extension that exports Tableau Server and Tableau Cloud users, group members, groups, and content lists to Excel, CSV, or the clipboard.
Released Data Extractor for TradingView.com by Table Capture, a Chrome extension that exports TradingView options chains and the economic calendar to Excel, CSV, or the clipboard.
Released Lead Exporter by Table Capture, a Chrome extension that exports LinkedIn Sales Navigator search results — leads and accounts — to Excel, CSV, or the clipboard.
Created isdababyhereyet.com, a one-page answer to the question everyone keeps asking.
Built ClipBit, a macOS menu bar app that shows what kind of thing is on the clipboard right now — text, link, image, or file — previews it on hover, and does the obvious thing on click: reveal a file in Finder, open a link, or open an image in Preview.
Swift, AppKit and SwiftUI, sandboxed, with no clipboard history kept. Open source on GitHub.
Built Stunt Double, a memory game for iPad where the deck is AI-drawn cartoon doubles of the players themselves. Snap a selfie, get six cartoon stunt doubles, then flip and match — 2–6 players around one iPad, plus a solo Brain Training mode.
A way of visualizing predictions made and possible future scenarios discussed on a podcast.
Hot Takes #1 — Dylan Patel — Two labs will soon control most of the world's workforce
Back in January 2024 I started playing around with the idea of a virtual theremin — enough to get a dabble up and running.
Then on August 19th this Hacker News post turned up: Air Theremin, a browser theremin you play by waving at your webcam. It was so well done that I didn't feel compelled to continue.
Made Beeb, a daily color block puzzle for the web — place every piece on a board of colored blocks so colors meet corner-to-corner and never edge-to-edge, with one challenging board a day and shareable results.
Shipped Pepakura Set, a 3D matching puzzle for iPhone & iPad. Find two pieces whose faces share a pattern, pair them up to fuse them into one, and keep going until a low-poly sculpture stands whole — match · fuse · build.
No sign-in, no tracking, fully offline — and there's a playable demo right on the web landing page.
Rebuilt Goal Board — the goal-focused browser extension that's been live since May 2018 — on a modern TypeScript and React stack.
Same extension on Chrome and Edge, now with a type-safe, component-driven codebase that makes new features far faster to ship.
Made Habibi, a daily block puzzle for the web — one solvable clear-the-board puzzle a day, matched to your skill level by a calibrating rating, with shareable results.
Launched VertiTool, a Chrome extension that surfaces tools built specifically for the site you're on — land on a page and the right purpose-built tools are already waiting in your toolbar.
Available on the Chrome Web Store.
Built Tic Tic Boom, a macOS menu bar app that helps you stop touching your face or playing with your hair. It watches through your webcam, notices when a hand drifts toward your face, and alerts you in real time so you can break the habit.
Processing is 100% on-device — no video ever leaves your computer.
Released Many Hands for iOS and Android — organize your team, schedule site visits, and keep everyone on the same page, from the field to the office.
Many Hands runs my partner's gardening business.
Shipped Instantly Anon, an iOS app that blurs faces in with one tap. 100% on-device processing — no data ever leaves your phone. Uses on-device machine learning to better blur faces in photos and videos.
Launched Camera Roll Recap, an iOS app that turns your camera roll photos into a lively recap to share with friends and family.
George began using Claude code. A new era begins.