Sona Steam · planned late 2026

A hardcore precision platformer about a bat who can't fly yet.

I have been making little games since I started coding. After burning out on my dream project, a fly fishing RPG, I took a break and joined Game Off 2025, a month-long jam with the theme "waves." Sona came out of that month, and I've kept building it ever since, now under the studio name C'mon Betsy.

It is a punishing precision platformer, heavily inspired by the classics like Super Mario Brothers 3. Orphaned before she could learn to fly, Sona is searching a sprawling network of caves for other bats to call family. She sees by echolocation, which costs energy, so you eat bugs to keep the lights on and dodge predators in the dark between pulses.

• Hand-crafted levels with midway checkpoints and diamond challenges.
• Echolocation as a resource: light costs energy, bugs restore it.
• Simple inputs: run, jump, flap, echolocate.
• Multiple difficulty modes, speedrun timers, Steam achievements and cloud saves.

Wishlist on Steam

Beardsman's Bakery Live · 2025

An ordering and inventory site for a friend's weekend pastry business.

An online storefront and inventory system I built for a friend so he could grow his weekend pastry business. Brent bakes kouign-amann, cinnamon rolls, and cookies out of his kitchen in Belvedere Tiburon, and he was taking every order by text. That stops working somewhere around a dozen customers, so the site took over the menu, the stock counts, and the pickup schedule.

• Custom inventory. Every bake has a quantity for the day, and it counts down as orders come in. Once an item hits zero the menu marks it sold out and stops accepting it. Cancel an order and the stock goes back on the menu automatically.
• Pickup slots at set intervals. Customers pick a day and a time; once a slot is taken it disappears for everyone else. No two people at the door at once.
• No payment plumbing. Cash or Venmo at pickup. There is no card processor to onboard, no fees, and no PCI surface.
• A baker's admin panel. This gives Brent full control over the baked goods, inventory, photos, prices, and pickup windows. It also shows him which pastries are selling and which aren't.

All of it runs on free services. A Google Sheet is the database, an Apps Script web app is the API — it writes each order into the sheet and emails Brent the moment one lands — and the React front end is static files on Netlify. Apps Script is slow enough that you notice it; a request takes a second or two to come back. For a shop selling a few dozen pastries a weekend that is a fine trade: nothing to run, nothing to pay for, and every order lands in a spreadsheet he can sort.

Reach iOS + watchOS · in development

The reach is the forward extension at the catch — where every stroke begins.

The SpeedCoach is the default way to get real analytics on the water and it's genuinely good at it. The catch is $500 for a dedicated piece of hardware. Reach puts the same numbers on a watch you already wear: stroke rate, stroke count, distance per stroke, pace per 500m, splits, and heart rate. You get them live while you paddle and again in the breakdown afterward.

Then it adds the part the hardware doesn't — navigation. Your GPS track draws on the watch as you paddle, so you can find your way around the water instead of only measuring how fast you crossed it.

• A map on your wrist. Built-in GPS with your route live on the watch face. No phone in a dry bag, no second device.
• Stroke detection on device. Cadence comes from the watch's motion sensors — no paddle-mounted pod to buy, mount, or charge.
• Watch-first. Start, track, and end the workout on your wrist with water lock on. Big numbers, high contrast, one-second glances.
• HealthKit-native. Workouts save as real HKWorkouts with routes, so they show up in Fitness and count toward your rings.
• No accounts, no server. Data lives on your devices and syncs watch-to-phone directly. Pay once.

It covers dragon boat, SUP, outrigger canoe, kayak, canoe, and rowing. Reach is the app I wished existed when I took up paddling and saw what the hardware cost — it's in active development and headed for the App Store.

We Out Here YouTube · live

Fishing, bikepacking, and whatever else we talk each other into.

I've been making silly videos for a long time. Sometimes I like to make outdoor / fishing / cycling videos with my friends and post them here — feel free to check it out!