Golden Data

Proof

Things I’ve shipped on personal time

Small apps against publicly available problems — built to prove the patterns I write about actually work in production. The consulting practice is what I do for clients. These are the receipts.

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By the numbers

9 newsletter issues shipped 4 apps shipped on personal time 27 macro indicators tracked daily 100% data-validation pass rate

Shipped

Make the complex obvious

High School Pathways

Ogden School District’s degree-requirement PDF rebuilt as a living visual roadmap. Parents see credits earned, gaps to close, and the next decision they need to make.

What shipped

  • Static dashboard that translates a dense policy PDF into a status bar + course timeline
  • No login, no tracking — designed for a parent on a phone at the kitchen table
  • Same lens used in the consulting work: find the moment of decision, surface the constraint, make the next step obvious

Live data, plain-language reads

Economic Dashboard

Live macro indicators from FRED — Buffett indicator, yield curve, employment, housing — with a running notebook of what each move means. Refreshed weekdays by a GitHub Action.

What shipped

  • FRED data pipeline: 27 indicators pulled, validated, and committed daily — runs in this repo
  • Dashboard with reference zones, presets, and a raw/relative toggle (landing here in Phase 2)
  • Clips: a tagged, monthly-archived notebook of what each macro move actually means (Phase 3)

Frictionless intake

Mr. Meseeks

A task inbox that takes whatever you can throw at it — typed notes, voice memos, photos of receipts, forwarded emails, screenshots — and routes each item into the right project with sensible defaults.

What shipped

  • Multi-format capture: text, voice transcript, image, email, calendar paste
  • Auto-routing by workspace, project, priority, label, due date, estimate
  • Approval queue: every captured item lands in a proposed-tasks inbox the user reviews, never auto-committed

Search → ranked output → delivery

Ogden Apartment Finder

Apartment search across the Ogden, Utah metro. Pulls listings from multiple sources, ranks them, mails a formatted digest, and ships an interactive map you can click around.

What shipped

  • Multi-source listing scrape across the Weber County metro
  • Email digest with the top picks and a one-line read on each
  • Interactive Leaflet map with pins, filter by price, beds, distance to schools

The receipts, in depth

Two standing records back this up: the validation evidence — 27 series checked against source every weekday — and the build log, the full shipping cadence newest-first. If you’d rather not wait for the next entry, the newsletter is where the work-in-progress shows up first.

Validation evidence Build log