Sep 27, 2026An open hop-variety database that stores every source's number instead of one confident one: Hopsteiner, BarthHaas, the Hop Breeding Company, Indie Hops and more, rolled up with the disagreements left visible. 232 varieties, a hop landscape chart, hop-vs-hop comparisons, Washington, Oregon and Idaho acreage by variety from the USDA National Hop Report, and What's in the Can: 2,000+ beers from 32 breweries from Bellingham to Corvallis, hop by hop, Scan a Beer, which reads the hops off a photo of the can, and Untappd check-ins and ratings joined to the hops. Free JSON API.
Sep 29, 2026Why I built HopLove: every hop in over 2,000 Pacific Northwest beers, with the farm it came from during fresh hop season and a source for every number.
A one-tap recipe pipeline built on Cloudflare Workers, Claude and a static site — no database, no friction, and versioned data for free. Share a link from your phone and it lands parsed, structured and searchable a few seconds later.
2026Building an AI-assisted trade journal for a Rotary investment club: a domain that jumped repos and briefly deleted my own website, a cache that wouldn't let go, and the no-cors redirect bug that ate every form submission with a cheerful success message. Ends with Claude reading the club's theses and calling one of them a vibe.
2026A twelve-foot animatronic skeleton in the garden-center aisle in July isn't really about Halloween. It's the newsvendor problem applied to witch hats, a tariff whose legal basis changed twice this year, a real-estate arbitrage disguised as a costume shop opening 1,575 stores in dead Forever 21s and Safeways, and a government seasonal-adjustment model quietly getting fooled by a holiday that keeps migrating earlier in the calendar.
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