I'm Sam!

Aside is a local-first notetaking app for notes at the speed of thought (it looks a little like Discord). It works offline and syncs between your devices, and has thoughtful AI when you want it. I built the app with RxDB and Preact as a personal project to learn about databases.

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An alternative frontend for multiple image generation models where you can bring your own API keys.

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Scans a restaurant receipt, lets you assign entrees to people, then calculates tip and tax for a clean split.

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Shelfie is a self-hosted web app for managing your media watch history, a bit like Trakt but supporting movies, TV shows, books, and video games. It has a skeumorphic interface designed to feel slick and fast, while looking like a physical shelf of media.

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A streamlined tool for creating, converting, cropping, and compressing GIFs.

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A lightweight reader for the Super Brothers webcomic designed to avoid the friction of using DeviantArt.

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Generates an iCal feed from your Trakt calendar so you can track movie and show release dates.

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A map of all businesses in the US that offer Bike Benefits discounts, optimized for mobile.

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Creates an API key that lets an LLM agent share your location and Discord status.

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A project that embeds Discord statuses in SVGs that can be easily placed anywhere. Built with a vanilla HTML frontend and React backend(!?)

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My interview take-home for Fetch, where I interned during the summer of 2025. A web app that displays dog images from an API and lets you select and search for specfiic breeds, all coded in a handful of hours in Svelte.

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My first browser extension. Previews links using ChatGPT when you hover over them in Chrome and Firefox.

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A zoomable experiment where Minecraft textures recursively replace pixels for an infinite fractal effect.

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A game of absurd courtroom drama, once again heavily inspired by Jackbox party games. Players debate absurd claims in front of a jury of their peers, with one side arguing for and another side against. Built as a final project for a theatre improvisation class.

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Jeopardy, but your phone is the buzzer and your laptop is the game board. A real-time trivia game built with websockets and Rust(!?) for MadHacks 2025.

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A game of deception and deduction. Players describe a random Wikipedia article, but only one of them has actually read it. Their goal is to convince the others that they know what they're talking about.

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A site for a local political campaign, built with Astro and Tailwind CSS. I built the site and continue to maintain it, making updates as needed and helping with hosting and email setup.

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A site for a local jazz band, built with Astro, Tailwind CSS, and Contentful.

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A map of property tax data for the city of Madison, built with DSSD for Strong Towns' Madison chapter. I led the team of the maps and statistics pages, learning from my past work on DSSD's Red CORAL project.

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An open-source club project that I led. A web app for a non-profit in South America that filters, sorts, and visualizes crime data on a map, table, and other charts.

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A Wordpress site for a local political campaign

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The class project showcase site for CS559: Computer Graphics at UW-Madison.

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A 3D fishbowl simulation built with pure WebGL. Loads in models and handwritten shaders! My final project for CS559: Computer Graphics at UW-Madison.

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The second workshop event site for WebLabs' WebFest series, teaching participants SQL, REST APIs, and LLM tool calls through hands-on challenges.

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A Discord bot that accesses the Splatoon 3 API to get information about the game, like current shop and map rotations. It also let discord members vote for their favorite Splatfest teams.

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The website you're currently on! Built with Astro, Tailwind CSS, and TypeScript.

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freeCodeCamp certification in backend development and APIs.

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freeCodeCamp data visualization certification.

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freeCodeCamp front end development libraries certification.

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freeCodeCamp responsive web design certification.

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freeCodeCamp JavaScript algorithms and data structures certification.

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