Projects
Things I have built or am in the process of building, roughly in reverse chronological order.
FocusOn
I wanted a super simple task tracker that would do three things:
- let me track what I had worked on locally without cloud services and other cruft
- play nicely with my Obsidian and Claude code setup
- continually but subtly remind me to stay on track
This is just a simple little widget that let’s you specify what you’re working on and then just floats there, in view, continually reminding you what you decided. Outputs a CSV file that is easy to parse and review.
https://github.com/ckritzinger/focus_on
Shelf Help
My wife is an avid reader of parenting and other self-help books, but she said she struggles to apply their teachings in every day life. Shelf help lets you vent about something that has happened, listens empathically and then allows you to choose an appropriate famous thinker to give you feedback on the situation, from Marcus Aurelius to Dr Becky Kennedy
https://shelfhelp-inky.vercel.app/
Mr Burns
I’ve always been a big fan of Dr David Burns and of CBT, but the paper worksheets have always been a hassle, and I find it quite hard to do effective CBT completely solo - having a sounding board seems really useful. The new TEAM CBT is even better, but even more of a process to manage, which is particularly hard when you have the blues. This is an attempt to make the process more manageable in an online format, and with AI coaching you and providing feedback.
https://mister-burns.vercel.app/
Daily Maverick App (2021)
Discovered and used an undocumented API to build an app to read my Daily Maverick news. Shared the app with a few friends and it went quietly viral. When DM eventually found out about it, they were very understanding - they supported me to properly launch the app under their brand and eventually purchased it.
https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/daily-maverick-app/
Turtology (2016)
Having learned to code in Logo as a kid (I’m that old) I wanted to see if Logo still had a place in the world, and whether it could be used to create a sort of social coding environment for kids - something between Replit (which didn’t exist at the time) and Tiktok (which didn’t exist at the time). Doesn’t really need to exist any more, but I still think Logo is a great language for learning. When I moved to other languages I was very surprised to learn that most didn’t treat functions as first class objects (which has fortunately changed over the years, thanks Ruby/Python!).