Jack Archbold
I run a managed-IT shop. On the side I build things with Claude Code, then write up what went wrong.
Projects
Carry the Fire
A free capture the flag shooter you ski, in your browser
VibePantry
Freemium pantry-to-recipe PWA
Sellsword
AI-powered TTRPG NPC companion
Order Desk
AI order entry for a nut and bolt wholesaler
Sketch to CAD
Hand-drawn cabinet sketches to shop drawings, by email
Also
Latest writing
My password manager ran out of yeses
Everything on my home server shares one allowance of 1,000 password lookups a day. At 4:19 on a Friday morning it ran out, and fixing it turned up two more mistakes along the way.
The report said HIGH. The raw rows said MEDIUM.
An AI-written report on a departing employee counted six red flags and concluded HIGH risk. Twenty minutes in the raw audit log dissolved half of them.
Out by 4mm
A cabinetmaker draws every job by hand on graph paper. Now he emails a photo and gets back a CAD shop drawing, plus a sheet of questions about everything it wasn't sure of.
Let it think before it answers
The order desk picked the wrong U-bolt, then wrote a neat explanation of why a different one was right. The fix was swapping two fields.
The printer said Success and deleted a director
One day automating a client's onboarding and offboarding, and three things that reported success when nothing had happened. One of them was a printer, deleting the wrong person.