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Work

Work since 2009.

Apps, hardware, AI assistants, Apple documentation and books. Client names appear where the work is already public.

Now · 2024–2026

Current work

iOS · macOS · visionOS

MyRunBook Planner

Planner for tasks, feeds, meeting transcripts and receipts, with on-device OCR and a local LLM.

SwiftUI · MLX
iOS · partner brands

Hospital vendor badge app

Hospital vendor check-in with geofencing, polygon detection and a Bluetooth LED badge.

Swift · CoreBluetooth
AI

Log analytics and troubleshooting assistants

Internal and customer-facing chat over app logs, with Claude or a local model behind each answer.

Claude · llama.cpp
macOS

AstroStorm

Camera control and image stacking for night-sky and lightning photography.

macOS

Skills Organizer

A Mac app for browsing and launching Claude Code skills.

SwiftUI
Books · Apress

For Absolute Beginners series

Objective-C for Absolute Beginners

iPhone, iPad and Mac programming, several editions. With Brad Lees and Mitch Fisher; Stefan Kaczmarek joined later editions.

Swift 2, Swift 3 and Swift 4 for Absolute Beginners

With Brad Lees; Stefan Kaczmarek joined for Swift 4.

Have an app or an AI idea?

Send me a short note on LinkedIn about what you're trying to do. We'll set up a free 30-minute call, and you'll come away knowing whether it's a fit, roughly what it takes, and what to do first.