Projects, written up properly.

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    {
      "id": "second-brain",
      "title": "A second brain where the agent does the filing",
      "status": "live",
      "year": 2026,
      "category": "tool",
      "role": "solo · personal tooling",
      "summary": "A plain-markdown vault an AI librarian keeps for me — 738,000 messages indexed locally, nothing filed without my approval, no cloud.",
      "summary_plain": "A filing cabinet for my own notes, mail and messages that an AI assistant maintains for me. It proposes what needs doing next; I approve it. Everything stays on my Mac.",
      "stack": [
        "Claude Code",
        "Node.js",
        "SQLite",
        "FTS5",
        "Astro",
        "Markdown",
        "Obsidian"
      ],
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        "messages_indexed_locally": "738K",
        "text_hidden_in_a_binary_blob": "88%",
        "notes_filed_without_approval": "0",
        "leaks_a_careful_scrub_missed": "3"
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    },
    {
      "id": "receipt-splitter",
      "title": "Split the check from a photo",
      "status": "wip",
      "year": 2026,
      "category": "tool",
      "role": "solo · side project",
      "summary": "Photograph a receipt, tap who had what, get the split. Runs on your phone with no server, and refuses to show a split that doesn't add up.",
      "summary_plain": "Photograph the dinner receipt, say who ate what, and it tells everyone what they owe. It checks its own answer against the receipt's printed total and won't show a split that doesn't match.",
      "stack": [
        "TypeScript",
        "Preact",
        "Tesseract.js",
        "Vite"
      ],
      "metrics": {
        "network_calls_after_load": "0",
        "wrong_splits_on_real_receipts": "0",
        "money_arithmetic": "integer cents"
      },
      "links": {
        "source": "https://github.com/Dylansg318/SplitApp",
        "play": "https://dylansg.com/play/receipt-splitter"
      },
      "page": "https://dylansg.com/projects/receipt-splitter"
    },
    {
      "id": "portfolio-site",
      "title": "This Portfolio",
      "status": "live",
      "year": 2026,
      "category": "tool",
      "role": "solo",
      "summary": "A content site that can also run games, built so the writing stays easy and the demos stay cheap.",
      "summary_plain": "This website. It has two voices, plain English and engineer, and a whole second mode where the portfolio becomes a help desk. Also it can run games.",
      "stack": [
        "Astro",
        "TypeScript",
        "Tailwind",
        "Cloudflare Workers",
        "MDX"
      ],
      "metrics": {
        "js_on_a_write_up": "0 KB",
        "hosting": "$0/mo",
        "demo_lanes": "2"
      },
      "links": {
        "source": "https://github.com/Dylansg318/Portfolio"
      },
      "page": "https://dylansg.com/projects/portfolio-site"
    },
    {
      "id": "shotcall",
      "title": "Shotcall",
      "status": "live",
      "year": 2026,
      "category": "game",
      "role": "solo",
      "summary": "A daily puzzle. A ball bounces three times and drops into a pocket; you guess which one. Every miss shows you one more bounce.",
      "summary_plain": "Like Wordle, but with a bouncing ball. One puzzle a day: work out which pocket it ends up in. Guess wrong and it shows you one more bounce.",
      "stack": [
        "TypeScript",
        "Astro",
        "SVG",
        "Node"
      ],
      "metrics": {
        "board_shapes_searched": "170,356",
        "boards_that_survive": "1,037",
        "ball_positions_verified": "1.55M"
      },
      "links": {
        "play": "https://dylansg.com/play/shotcall"
      },
      "page": "https://dylansg.com/projects/shotcall"
    },
    {
      "id": "galaxy-defense",
      "title": "Galaxy Defense",
      "status": "archived",
      "year": 2020,
      "category": "game",
      "role": "solo",
      "summary": "A space shooter built in block code in high school. 790 lines, an economy, and a boss fight, with no arrays or classes available.",
      "summary_plain": "A game I built in high school using drag-and-drop coding blocks. It has a shop, upgrades, a boss, and a teleport ability, all made without the normal tools programmers use to keep code organised.",
      "stack": [
        "JavaScript",
        "Code.org Game Lab",
        "Blockly",
        "Canvas"
      ],
      "metrics": {
        "lines_of_generated_js": "790",
        "sprites_placed_by_hand": "17",
        "arrays_available": "0"
      },
      "links": {
        "play": "https://dylansg.com/play/galaxy-defense"
      },
      "page": "https://dylansg.com/projects/galaxy-defense"
    },
    {
      "id": "erp-test-automation",
      "title": "Testing an ERP by hand, then automating a cloud app",
      "status": "archived",
      "year": 2024,
      "category": "course",
      "role": "contributor · team of 10",
      "summary": "Two sprints on the CYDEO SDET program — fourteen user stories tested by hand against an ERP, then a Cucumber and Selenium suite against a cloud app.",
      "summary_plain": "Ten of us taught robots to re-test a business app every night, after testing it by hand first, which is how we found the bugs the robots would've missed.",
      "stack": [
        "Java",
        "Selenium",
        "Cucumber",
        "Gherkin",
        "REST Assured",
        "JUnit",
        "Maven",
        "Jenkins",
        "Jira"
      ],
      "links": {
        "source": "https://github.com/drwekilowa/B34_G11_Sprint_2CloudAuto"
      },
      "page": "https://dylansg.com/projects/erp-test-automation"
    }
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