Hello, and what this is

I run a small managed-IT shop. Most of my week is other people’s infrastructure — mailboxes, endpoints, the quiet plumbing that keeps a business running. This site isn’t about that. This is the other half: the things I build for myself, at night, because an idea wouldn’t leave me alone.

I’ve started calling it vibe-coding — sitting down with a rough shape of an app and building it end to end, fast, on tools I trust. The result is a small constellation of live apps: VibePantry turns a pantry into recipes; VibeExpenses reads a receipt and files it; Sellsword gives tabletop RPGs a voice-driven NPC you can actually talk to. None of them are grand. All of them ship.

jackarchbold.dev is the hub for that constellation — one place that points at everything, with a short writeup behind each project and a blog for the working notes. It’s deliberately plain: no hero video, no funnel, no pitch. If you’ve landed here from one of the apps and wondered who made it, this is the answer.

The build-in-public part is the point. I want a record of the decisions — why Cloudflare’s edge stack for nearly everything, where a paywall belongs, what I got wrong and re-did. Partly that’s for me, so future-me doesn’t relearn the same lesson. Partly it’s because the useful version of “how I built this” is the honest one, gaps included.

So: expect short posts, real projects, and no overclaiming. If something here is live, it’s because I use it. If it’s rough, I’ll say so.

More soon.