20 years of side projects, game dev experiments, tax crusades, and AI acceleration. A developer's journey through tinkering, learning, and occasionally shipping.
2,189 commits in Q3 2025 alone. Pokémon Vampire Survivors with my kids. A web agency hitting $1000/month in recurring revenue. When AI meets a tinkerer's mindset, everything accelerates.
Read more
Building Mezzo (a mocking framework everyone at work loved), OCR inventory sorting for Diablo 4, and trying to recreate Payday 2 magic with Payday 3. Some projects succeed, some flop hard. Here's both.
698 commits in a single quarter. Proximity-based chat, spreading alien viruses, and finally answering a question I'd wondered about since childhood: how do games actually work?
3D-printed sensor cases, Home Assistant automations, and going door-to-door helping strangers win property tax appeals. The story of when my tinkering habit actually started solving real problems.
From a side project to an NDA with Overkill Studios. This is the story of how a simple skill calculator website launched my journey into side projects, React Native at work, and the realization that programming is just digital Legos.
I'm Steven, a React Native developer by day working in fintech at a Fortune 500 company. By night (and weekends, and naptime), I tinker with game dev, home automation, developer tools, and whatever else catches my curiosity. This blog is a retrospective of 20 years of side projects: the wins, the abandoned repos, and everything in between.