A personal index of side projects, small tools, and experiments built over the years.
Some are maintained, some are half-finished, and others served their purpose for an evening and were left alone. The operating rule is simple: nothing has to succeed.
Projects
[view all projects →]| Project | Status | The Idea |
|---|---|---|
| yasp.site | [Alive & Kicking] | A place to dump all my side projects so they don't rot in private repos |
| ToastOS: ESP32 Browning Controller | [Over-Engineered] | Replace the dumb mechanical toaster dial with an infrared sensor and an ESP32 closed-loop PID controller |
| Tab Graveyard | [Alive & Working] | Forcefully close tabs untouched for 24 hours and play a funeral march so I stop hoarding 150 tabs |
| GitBlame-Roulette | [Half-Baked] | A git commit wrapper that replaces 'fixed bug' with plausible corporate excuses blaming cosmic rays |
| VibeCoder FM | [Alive & Kicking] | Procedural ambient rain and lo-fi synthesizer generated 100% in browser with zero audio files |
| SunkCost: SaaS Necromancer | [Abandoned / Dead] | A dashboard that tracks recurring payments to shame myself into canceling unused services |
| Cursor Scream | [Alive & Working] | Calculate mouse velocity and make the browser scream if you shake the cursor violently |
Latest Dispatches
[view all →]- yasp.site is Officially Live — Welcome to the Project Cemetery
We registered yasp.site, built it with Hugo, and declared war on perfectionism. All side projects now have a permanent home.
- Postmortem: Why My Smart Toaster Almost Caught Fire
A technical breakdown of how a simple MLX90614 sensor and a solid-state relay resulted in a 450-degree kitchen panic.
- The Manifesto: Why 'Nothing Has to Succeed' is the Best Mindset
An essay on the joy of writing code with zero stakes, zero venture expectations, and zero productivity guilt.