A curated list, not a portfolio dump.

Client work, described at the level the public sites describe it.

• Turkey Vulture Software

  turkeyvulturesoftware.com

  Independent software engineering: website rescue and development, custom software, AI and business automation, and data and cloud systems.

  Problem

  Small organizations end up with software nobody can maintain: a site held together by plugins, a spreadsheet doing the work of a database, automation that only one person understands.

  Approach

  Ownership-first engineering. The client keeps the code, the accounts and the ability to leave, and the site is built without a client framework or a build step it cannot explain later.

  Outcome

  Live practice site. Inquiries go through a server-side form and arrive by email; nothing is stored in a database or CRM. The site reports only pageviews and confirmed inquiry events to an analytics service it documents.

• AI Small Business Guru

  aismallbizguru.com

  Practical websites, applications, automation, and AI, with client ownership from the start.

  Problem

  The useful version of AI for a small business is usually unglamorous: fewer copied spreadsheets, less retyping, one place where the work actually lives.

  Approach

  Small, owned systems rather than a platform migration: a static site, a focused application, or automation around the tools a business already pays for.

  Outcome

  Live services site built and deployed as static files. The working experiments behind it live in a separate lab rather than on the public site.

Tools I built because I wanted them. No accounts required, and no claim that they are finished.

• Worth Looking Up

  worthlookingup.com

  A local-first guide to the sky: satellite passes, rocket launch schedules, planets, meteor showers, comets and eclipses.

  Problem

  The sky keeps a schedule, and it is easy to miss the good parts while checking several sites that each treat precision differently.

  Approach

  Vanilla JavaScript, vendored calculation libraries, browser workers and bounded local caches. Launch schedules are shown as published schedules with their precision stated, and they never enter the satellite or celestial scores.

  Outcome

  Live, usable without an account or a build step. An observing plan exports to a calendar file built in the browser; no server or calendar API is involved.

• Road Naturalist

  roadnaturalist.com

  A field-research tool for finding roads worth surveying, and for being explicit about what the data cannot tell you.

  Problem

  A mapped road is not a public road, and a public road is not a good place to watch wildlife. Most mapping tools collapse that distinction into one confident answer.

  Approach

  A bounded Oregon pilot built from a TIGER/Line 2025 road extract that measures road, wetland, surface-water and ecoregion facts for every candidate corridor. A separate investigator researches access from declared official sources rather than a URL a client supplies.

  Outcome

  Live pilot. Coverage and access are stated separately: a measured corridor can still be unverified for public access, and the interface says so instead of scoring around it.

• Fruiting Forecast

  fruitingforecast.com

  Mushroom-hunt intelligence: weather history, habitat evidence and access-aware planning, with the safety limits stated up front.

  Problem

  A mushroom forecast is easy to make look precise and hard to make honest. Moisture, habitat, land access and collecting rules are different questions with different evidence.

  Approach

  Sampled sectors compared against per-species fruiting models, keeping 30-day moisture history, habitat cover and mapped access as separate evidence rather than one blended number.

  Outcome

  Live experiment. The site repeats that forecasting is not identification, and that mapped public land does not establish collecting legality.

The part of the workshop that makes noise.

• Earwurmz of Whimsy

  youtube.com

  Original songs and videos made with AI tools in the loop. The catalogue includes a darkly comic outlaw-country ballad about turkey vultures, which is exactly the kind of idea this channel exists for.

  Ongoing. New videos appear on the channel; the latest ones are listed under Elsewhere.

A note on evidence

These descriptions stick to what each public site can show. There are no invented metrics, testimonials, or outcomes, and no screenshots standing in for work you can visit yourself. Where a project can't verify something, the project says so — that's usually the most interesting part of the design.