You
Browser · PWA
Your phone or laptop screen — where it all starts.
A no-jargon tour
How this site works
This is one site that builds itself in public — a living lab where a portfolio, a private set of household tools, a small software product, and a few client projects all run on one machine that ships daily, films itself, and tests its own work. Here’s how the pieces fit together — in plain English. Press play on a journey below and watch the site actually work.
1website
40+distinct tools & pages
11outside services
24/7robots on a schedule
01 — Play it
Trace the signal
Learn how the site works by routing real requests through it. Watch a request travel the wires, then take over and tap the right part at each step. Earn stars and badges as you go — five quick levels and you’ll genuinely understand the whole thing.
🎮 Trace the Signal
Level 1 · Open a page
🎯 Get a blog post onto your screen.
The website itselfWhere things are storedOutside helpersWorks on a scheduledashed = happens quietly in the background
02 — The cast
Meet the parts
Every box on the map, explained like you’d explain it to a friend. Each one has a friendly name and its real technical name underneath.
Front desk
Edge middleware
Checks who you are and lets you through to the right place.
The hub
App Router
Takes every request and decides what should happen.
The clerks
Lib accessors
Fetch, file, and tidy up information for the hub.
Main memory
Supabase · main
Where almost everything is stored and remembered.
Exam vault
Supabase · CRSS
A separate, walled-off store for the exam-prep questions.
Photo store
Storage buckets
Holds uploaded photos, files, and artwork.
AI helper
Anthropic · Claude
Reads photos, answers questions, and drafts writing.
Librarian
Voyage embeddings
Makes everything findable so search gives good answers.
Mail room
Resend
Sends the emails and sign-in links.
Cash register
Stripe
Handles payments when you buy something.
Video shelf
YouTube
Where the site’s short films are published.
Sign-in
Google OAuth
Lets you log in with a Google account or an email link.
Smart home
Home Assistant
Controls real lights and devices at home.
Text bot
Telegram
A chat bot that takes commands by text message.
Night shift
Cron · Workflows
Robots that do chores on a schedule, even while you sleep.
03 — The point of it all
What this site is for
The same machine runs four very different kinds of thing. Here’s how they’re sorted — and how much each one gets fussed over.
Business
Earns a living
The parts that make money, or are on their way to it.
- Court-collections toolsfor clients
- Heddle (software product)product
- Freelance & hirepublic
- Exam-prep courseproduct
Studio
Creative & public face
The portfolio, games, writing, and films anyone can enjoy.
- Games (20+)public
- Novels & essayspublic
- Blog & researchpublic
- Films & videopublic
Lab · personal
Private daily tools
Tools Jake and Gina use to run the household — just for them.
- Money & receiptsprivate
- Mail, to-dos, choresprivate
- Smart-home controlprivate
- Habits & ritualsprivate
Lab · experiment
Playground
Quick experiments and free tools — fun to make, easy to retire.
- Shared to-do boardsfree
- Weather boardsfree
- Trip plannersfree
- Countdownsfree
04 — Why it’s one thing
How the parts compound
The surfaces aren’t separate apps bolted to one domain — they share plumbing, so each new piece quietly makes the others better. Four connections do most of that work.
One shared memory
Write something once and it shows up everywhere. A new post seeds into the database, and from there it automatically powers on-site search, the AI concierge, the weekly digest, and the social drafts — no piece wired up by hand.
One source of truth for navigation
The menu, the footer, the search palette, and the concierge all read the same single list, so they can never drift out of sync. Even the free shared tools are entries in that same catalog.
One nervous system
Every key, login, scheduled robot, and permission lives in one control room. Rotate a key once and every surface that needs it picks it up — no redeploy, nothing copied around.
It films and narrates itself
The site records short films of its own screens, drafts social posts from whatever just shipped, and writes a weekly note about what changed — so the act of building is itself the content.
Where all of this is heading — the resident AI’s honest pitches for what to build next — lives on the vision page.
05 — For the curious
Under the hood
The same story, with the real names — for anyone who builds software and wants the specifics.
The technical stack & integrations
One request, six layers
Client
Browser · installable PWA · React 19 client leaves
React 19 (JSX, no TS)Three.js · Tone.jsLeaflet · Recharts · KaTeXMultiple PWA manifests
Edge
Next.js middleware — the auth gate, edge-safe
auth.config.js (edge-safe)JWT session strategyPer-surface gatingVercel edge runtime
App Router
Server-component-first · ~422 API handlers
Server components by default"use client" at the leavesRoute-level metadataRequest-time Supabase reads
Lib accessors
One module per table/surface — no supabase.from() in components
~105 modulesAccessor-module disciplineAuth · tokens · email · AICross-DB guard (main vs CRSS)
Data
Two Supabase (Postgres) projects + storage buckets
Supabase main (everything)Supabase CRSS (exam bank)Storage bucketsSome Vercel Postgres
External
Third-party services reached server-side
Anthropic · VoyageResend · StripeGoogle OAuthHome Assistant · Telegram · YouTube
External integrations
Supabase — main
Postgres for blog/research/projects + every private surface, auth rows, storage.
Supabase — CRSS
A second, isolated Postgres project for the exam-prep question bank.
Anthropic (Claude)
Runtime concierge + photo/PDF vision parsing; ops orchestrators (enrichment, LinkedIn, Strata).
Voyage
Embeddings for the hybrid (semantic + keyword) search index behind the concierge.
Resend
All transactional email + magic links, From-line resolved per surface so brands never leak.
Stripe
Fixed-scope checkout for the /hire offers and Heddle billing.
Google OAuth
Primary sign-in provider (alongside the Resend magic link).
Home Assistant
MANOR smart-house, reached only through an outbound-only bridge worker — never inbound.
Telegram
One bot + plugin router; unknown senders are silently dropped at the allowlist.
YouTube
The Studio warehouse for the headlessly-filmed site reel + analytics.
Vercel
Hosting + edge + GitHub-integrated deploys.
A living map · last verified June 2026
Watch the system grow
An occasional note when something genuinely new ships here — a new tool, a new part on this map. No schedule, no filler, easy out.