Hi, I'm Jake

I'm an engineer, a builder, and a dad. I'm in way over my head, but that's where the fun is!

MakingParentingAI

A Crayon Leash for Airplane Trays

Crayons keep ending up on the floor of the plane. My wife asked for a way to keep one attached to the tray, so I designed a 3D-printed holder with Claude over a weekend. Here are the three rounds, including the one where the fingers snapped off.

9 min read

MakingFood

Interlock Cutters: Christmas Cookie Cutters That Tessellate

Four 3D-printable Christmas cookie cutters shaped to fit edge to edge, so there is almost nothing to re-roll. Play with a dough sheet to see how much dough each design saves, then download the STL files.

1 min read

Does Best-of-5 Entrench Champions? A Tennis Natural Experiment
DataSportsEngineering

Does Best-of-5 Entrench Champions? A Tennis Natural Experiment

Men play best-of-five at the majors; women play best-of-three everywhere. That difference looked like a clean way to test whether a lower-variance format keeps the same players on top. The answer turned out to be more interesting than a yes or no.

7 min read

Asynchronous Cooking
CookingProductivityLife Hacks

Asynchronous Cooking

Here's how I cook dinner without actually having to be there for most of it.

8 min read

How I use Nano-Claw to run local apps
AIProductivityLocal Apps

How I use Nano-Claw to run local apps

How I used Claude Code to build two personal AI-powered apps — a meal planner and a homeschool scheduler — and wired them into my daily life through NanoClaw.

5 min read

Optimizing Human I/O
ProductivityEngineering

Optimizing Human I/O

How parenting forced me to stop treating my input and output modalities as fixed — and why matching them to context is the real productivity unlock.

4 min read

Can AI Save Dinner?
AIFoodParenting

Can AI Save Dinner?

Exploring how prompt engineering can result in better family meals without the mental overhead of traditional meal planning.

5 min read

Debugging Lessons from a 3-Year-Old
ParentingEngineering

Debugging Lessons from a 3-Year-Old

Why child-like curiosity and the constant question of 'Why?' is the ultimate superpower for any engineer who debugs.

3 min read

Meal Planning Framework
FoodSystemsParenting

Meal Planning Framework

How I minimize grocery runs and cooking time using a simple framework and meal list

7 min read

Hello World
AnnouncementMeta

Hello World

Welcome to my new personal blog. Built with TanStack Start and MDX.

1 min read