Built for the life I'm actually living.
I'm an SRE by trade, a woodworker by weekend, and someone who went looking for software that fit my actual life — not a sanitized version of it. When I couldn't find it, I built it. That's Nintek.
An SRE who lives in terminals and docs.
My day job is keeping systems running. That means notes — a lot of them. Incident timelines, runbook tweaks, things I figured out at 2am that I absolutely cannot lose. I tried every notes app and none of them felt right: too cluttered, too eager to sync everything to someone else's cloud, too slow to open when I'm already in the middle of something.
Tabloom started as a personal experiment in what notes could feel like if speed and privacy came first. Pulswire came from a similar frustration — staying current in tech is part of the job, but the signal-to-noise ratio on the internet is brutal. And Cairn? Certifications don't stop being important once you're senior. If anything, they matter more. I built Cairn to keep my study habit alive without turning it into a second job.
A hobbyist with a disorganized shop.
I've been doing woodworking long enough to have a real shop — table saw, router table, the works. And long enough to know the frustration of starting a project without being able to answer basic questions: do I have enough walnut for this? Where did I put the pocket hole jig? What were the measurements on that last cut list?
Workshop is a build log — projects, cut lists, material counts, the notes I used to scribble on scrap wood and then lose. ShopKeep is the inventory layer: what's in the shop, where it lives, and when I'm running low on something. Together they're the shop foreman I never had.
When the numbers started to matter.
A while back, I started a new health chapter — the kind where you suddenly have metrics to track that you'd never paid attention to before. Weight trends, doses, how you're actually feeling week over week. I went looking for an app to help me stay on top of it and found the same thing everywhere: designs that felt clinical, privacy policies that read like a data harvest, and UX clearly made for someone who wasn't me.
Tare is the app I wished I had. It tracks the metrics that matter on a GLP-1 journey, smooths out the daily noise so you can see the actual trend, and keeps everything local. No accounts. No cloud sync. Your health data is yours.
An avid gamer who needed a reset.
I've been playing games my whole life — consoles, PC, all of it. But there are days when a full session isn't in the cards. What I wanted was something to decompress with during lunch or after dinner that didn't ask for more time than I had — something that used a different part of my brain than a workday does.
Puzzlebox is eight daily games in one place. Sudoku, word puzzles, logic grids — the kind of mental reset that fits in five minutes or fifty. Your call.
The household that runs on lost receipts.
I cook, I do my own maintenance, and I've got a property with opinions about when things need attention. The problem is the paper trail — or the lack of one. Where's the HVAC filter size? When was the last time the water heater was serviced? What was in that marinade everyone loved?
Hearth is a household records hub. Appliances and their maintenance history, home documents, cooking notes — the stuff that's currently spread across your junk drawer, your email, and your fading memory.
Nintek is a one-person studio. Every app is private by default, built to last, and made because I needed it first. If any of this resonates — or if you've got something you're missing — get in touch.