Tomas

Tomas

Projects I build, and notes on what I learn along the way.

Projects

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  • Realworks Property Sync

    A WordPress plugin that syncs Realworks listings into WordPress — built so a realtor site does not keep paying every month to rent the inventory bridge.

    2025 / PHP / WordPress

  • SketchMatch

    A calm PWA with Waldorf-inspired drawing prompts for paper and pencil — built on holiday so starting to draw feels light again.

    2026 / Cursor / PWA / React / TypeScript

  • RekenTrainer

    A tiny local PWA for daily arithmetic practice — hosted on GitHub Pages, built for holiday weeks and quick sessions without worksheets, ads or guessing what happens to the data.

    2026 / Cursor / JavaScript / PWA

  • My Garage

    A digital garage for car enthusiasts with a private fleet: every invoice, inspection and repair in one timeline, instead of scattered across a mailbox.

    2026 / AI / Laravel / Livewire / PostgreSQL

  • Picnic grocery agent

    A grocery agent that plans the weekly menu, works out what's running low and fills the Picnic cart, so the weekly thinking no longer lands on one person.

    2026 / AI / Automation / Cursor / Home Assistant / MCP

  • This website

    A lean personal site to share projects and notes, built on EmDash and self-hosted on my own VPS.

    2026 / Astro / EmDash / Self-hosting / SQLite / TypeScript

Writing

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  • It wasn't just our house

    After my grocery story, a lot of people told me the same thing happens at their place. So I'm turning my own setup into an app other households can use, and I'm looking for a few to test it.

  • Realtor websites bill you every month for Realworks. That adds up fast

    A Realworks connection sold as a monthly fee looks fine in month one. Over a few years that quiet subscription is what made me build the WordPress sync myself.

  • I automated the hunt for my invoices

    Collecting receipts for bookkeeping kept slipping to the last moment — mostly because too many vendors hide PDFs behind a login. So I turned the hunt into a monthly automated run.

  • A phone that asks you to draw on paper

    On holiday my partner asked for an app that would make drawing inviting again. SketchMatch offers quiet prompts — and leaves the pencil work to you.

  • A kitchen tablet that rates dinner

    A Home Assistant dashboard that closes the loop for my grocery agent: recipes while cooking, ratings after dinner, and next week's menu picked from a shortlist.