by Marco

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Deep case studies showing the journey from idea to prototype to finished system.

From Designer to Builder

How I coached a talented designer from AI prototypes to independently building real products — a church website, a mobile app, payments, and a secured backend.

July 13, 2026Read Story

Interactive Systems13 min read

I Ported My JavaScript Game to the Super Nintendo in Three Days

Deadfall began as a Phaser browser game dressed up like a 16-bit console title. In three days, with Claude Code and PVSnesLib, it became a real SNES ROM.

June 7, 2026Read Story

Enterprise Systems10 min read

Turning Tribal Knowledge Into a Scalable CMS System

Transforming undocumented enterprise knowledge into a structured CMS architecture.

February 10, 2025Read Story

Enterprise Systems8 min read

How a Simpler Mini Cart Helped Unlock Up to $25M a Year

A high-impact ecommerce conversion win driven by product judgment, simplicity, and fast experimentation.

March 15, 2025Read Story

AI Tools14 min read

Human, Actually

A free tool that helps job seekers build stronger, evidence-based applications to get past automated screening systems and actually be seen.

April 6, 2026Read Story

AI Tools for Thinking9 min read

Designing an AI Tool for Thinking

A voice journaling app rebuilt from the ground up for iPhone. One AI wrote the master plan; another implemented it. End-to-end encrypted, GPT-5 powered.

June 15, 2026Read Story

Design Systems9 min read

Designing a Public Design System With AI

How I turned the visual language of AI-Created into a public design system, with AI accelerating the work and human judgment keeping it coherent.

March 30, 2026Read Story

Interactive Systems12 min read

Inventing a New Arcade Mechanic

Arcade game built around a new rotating defense mechanic using Phaser and custom shaders.

November 20, 2024Read Story