Notes on building real products with AI-assisted development, from mobile games to news aggregators.
Haliburton County is deciding whether to keep five municipal governments or fewer, and the argument turns on cost and service. Haliburton Atlas puts 94 metrics on one footing across the four townships, records 81 more as not comparable, and takes seriously the fact that more than half the county's dwellings have nobody living in them in February.
Toronto keeps having the same transportation argument, and it rarely starts from the data. Toraffic.ca pulls seven City of Toronto open datasets into one map and adds an OSRM-based impact score, labelled honestly as an estimate, so the debate can start from evidence instead of conclusions.
Most park guides rank by which one is nicest. The Toronto Parks Atlas asks a different question: is this park doing the urban work parks are supposed to do? Scoring all 3,273 of Toronto's parks across two axes reveals a bimodal city where only 7% of parks score well on both urban integration and natural comfort.
Canada has committed billions to sovereign AI, but what happens when you actually try to build something? Zeever.ca repurposes a desktop GPU, an existing VPS, and open models to answer real municipal questions using Canadian data.
Most EV websites are graveyards of yesterday's news. We built something different. EVD2.ca tracks Canada's EV market the way a stock trader watches a portfolio, following vehicles instead of articles.
Which AI model can you actually trust? I built an evaluation framework that sends the same prompts to GPT-4, Claude, Gemini, and Grok, then uses an AI judge to score their reliability and flag disagreements.
Cash Grab started as a Cocos2d prototype years ago. Here's how AI helped me rebuild it from scratch in Swift and ship it to the App Store.
Fresh News started as a PHP project with Roy Pereira years ago. After running on WordPress for a while, I rebuilt it from scratch with Next.js and Claude Code.
Part Shopify experiment, part tribute to the Wolf Wednesday legend. I learned about custom t-shirt margins, print-on-demand vendors, and what makes a wolf shirt people actually want to wear.
