Most of these projects started with something I wanted to fix, understand, or make easier. Some are software; one is a company; another is a place to make things with a camera. Here’s what went into them.
A desktop app for keeping track of jobs, scholarships and programmes, following deadlines, and preparing applications. I designed and built it from the ground up because I wanted a more useful way to manage the process myself.
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I founded Principia Works in November 2025. The work centres on understanding what public information reveals about a person or organisation, then turning those findings into practical steps to reduce exposure.
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A project built around a long-standing love of cars. I present, film, edit and photograph the cars myself, and I’ve built my own editing tool to take some of the repetitive work out of producing videos.
Explore Pops & BangsA few sites I’ve taken from an initial brief to a live deployment, covering planning, design, development, testing and launch.
Smaller projects, experiments, and tools that solve specific problems. Not everything needs to become a company to be worth building.
An AI rangeland and livestock adviser developed for Namibian farmers. It brings together herd records, weather, pasture information and livestock health protocols, with multilingual, voice and offline features designed for real-world conditions.
FastAPI · Agent tool-calling · PWA · OCR
View VeldWys on GitHub (opens in a new tab)I wanted to spend more time shaping a video and less time sorting footage. This local tool takes a folder of camera footage, transcribes it, identifies scenes and usable takes, and assembles a first cut with chapters, subtitles and thumbnail suggestions. It can also create vertical edits timed to music. I still make the creative decisions; the tool gets me past the repetitive first pass.
Python · Local AI · macOS app
The Argus case study goes into more detail about the problem, the architecture, the trade-offs I made, and what I learned while getting the beta into people’s hands.
