AWS CDK AI Analysis
Rust-powered sentiment analysis API deployed end-to-end with AWS CDK. Lambda, API Gateway, and an inference pipeline behind a typed contract.
API · AI · CDK · 2024
Work18 studio · 3 workshops
Things we've shipped.
Studio work organized into three practices, plus the open-source teaching kits we use to mentor students. Click a practice to filter the grid, or jump down to the workshops.
- Studio
- 18
- Live now
- 14
- Open source
- 8
PracticesThree lenses on what we ship
Three lenses.
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Son of Astraeus
Autonomous X agent: AWS CDK + GPT pipeline that researches, drafts, and posts on a schedule with self-review.
AI · Agents · X · 2024
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AI & AgentsScrumLord
Agentic system bridging Jira and GitHub. Turns sparse tickets into enriched issues with code context, links, and acceptance criteria.
AI · Agents · Automation · 2024
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Apps & PlatformsDatabryd
Multi-channel marketing analytics dashboard. Facebook, Google, Instagram, X, YouTube, and LinkedIn ad performance unified into a single overview with time-period drill-downs.
Data · Dashboard · 2025
Harris Ranch Beef
Marketing and online-ordering site for the legendary California beef brand. Premium imagery, retail and wholesale shop, plus content hubs for beef programs, dining, and animal welfare.
Marketing · E-commerce · 2024
Strategy Source AI
Brand site for the AI-driven consumer-intelligence consultancy. Cinematic hero scenes, vertical case studies across automotive, email, and language, and crisp positioning around proprietary models.
Marketing · AI · Brand · 2024
Coastal Pit Stop
Brand site for the Coastal Pit Stop fuel, wash, and deli stations. Hosted serverlessly on AWS with an S3 origin, CloudFront edge caching, and Route 53 DNS for sub-$5/month uptime at production speed.
Marketing · AWS · CloudFront · 2024
Settle
Transaction-management platform for real-estate deals. Buyers and sellers get a portal to upload documents and message their agent, while AI watches every deadline, drafts the next move, and keeps each deal on rails.
SaaS · AI · Real Estate · 2026
JZ Concrete
Marketing site for James Z. Concrete & Construction, a family-owned California concrete contractor — foundations, flatwork, driveways, and seismic retrofit. A services overview plus an instant cost calculator turn local searches into quote requests.
Marketing Site · Local Business · 2026
Captures by Mari
Brand and portfolio site for Captures by Mari, a Kern County sports photographer shooting high-school athletes and teams. An editorial, gallery-first design with an animated intro, a sport-tagged work archive, and booking inquiries built in.
Portfolio · Photography · Brand · 2026
Emulator Arcade
A Discord activity that drops a 15-system retro emulator — NES, SNES, Game Boy, GBA and a dozen more — straight into a voice channel. Browser-based, no install; players load their own ROMs, which stay local and never get uploaded, while the channel spectates on a shared screen. Multiplayer in progress.
Discord · WASM · Emulation · 2026
LLM Token Counter
An interactive tokenizer that shows exactly how an LLM reads your text — live token splits, per-model pricing, context-window usage, and even the energy, water, and CO₂ a prompt costs. Type a word, watch it break into tokens.
LLM · Tokenizer · Tool · 2026
WorkshopsOpen-source teaching kits
We teach what we ship.
Production-shaped starter kits we walk students through. Public datasets, real APIs, no toy data. Each one is a complete deployable repo plus a learning path.
MentorshipPublic APIsMIT licensed
- LessonW01
CIA World Facts Viewer
Learn:Type-safe routing, data shaping, and full-text search over a real-world dataset.
React RouterTypeScriptSearchDataSource - LessonW02
Mars Photo Explorer
Learn:Consuming public REST APIs with paginated state, query params, and resilient image loading.
NASA APIRESTReactPaginationSource - LessonW03
NASA APOD Interface
Learn:Typed API clients, date-driven routing, and a media viewer that handles images and embedded video.
NASA APITypeScriptMediaRoutingSource
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