Jake Herridge

The Collection

Everything I have made that is worth showing. Each entry gets a number and an honest stamp. The shelved ones stay. They paid for the lessons the shipped ones run on.

No. 001 · iOS app · 2026 · once known as Entry No. 138

shipped

PocketWild

A pocket-sized field journal where every creature you find gets a name.

A native iOS app I built end to end as a non-coder: I defined the product, drew the pixel art, and directed Claude Code through the Swift build, the iNaturalist computer vision, and the location and weather data. No ads, no subscriptions, no data collection.

pocketwild.app →

No. 002 · Knowledge system · 2026

growing

Synapse

A second brain built for an AI to read.

My knowledge system. It breaks what I learn into small typed nodes joined by typed edges, and every node carries its source and a verification status. An AI can traverse it and answer with citations instead of vibes. The Map on this site is its public cousin.

See the public cousin →

No. 003 · Claude Code plugin · 2026

shipped

Synapse Capture

The plugin that remembers what a session decided.

A Claude Code plugin that distills a working session's defining moments into typed nodes in Synapse. Decisions, pivots, and dead ends get captured with their provenance, so context compounds across sessions instead of being re-derived every morning.

No. 004 · Open source · 2026

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APD Storytelling System

Turns messy operational data into a brief and deck a board will actually read.

A Node.js pipeline that turns fulfillment-automation metrics into one-page strategic briefs, a thirteen-slide executive deck, white papers, and a chart library, all from one shared design system. Built as a working demonstration on synthetic data.

View on GitHub →

No. 005 · The web

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Kitchen Happy

Real recipes and the skills to cook them.

My wife Haley teaches home cooks the fundamentals, the handful of skills that make everything else easier. I help build and run the site and the content presence behind it, from the tech to the systems that keep it moving.

kitchenhappy.club →

No. 006 · The web

shipped

Making Moves PT

A friend's mobile physical therapy practice, findable.

A marketing site for a physical therapist who drives to you around Northwest Arkansas. A static site, booking that just works, and the local search plumbing that helps neighbors actually find him.

makingmovespt.com →

Built inside the business

Some of this lives inside a company, so I can describe it but not show the screens. No numbers on these. You will have to take my word, which is the point of the rest of the page.

The AI Hub
A single sign-on portal that put every internal AI tool we shipped behind one door, with usage tracked from day one. Before it, the tools were scattered and half-forgotten. After, we could see what people actually reached for.
Automated performance reviews
An automated performance-review system that took a dreaded annual scramble and turned it into something that mostly runs itself, writing its results straight into the system of record.
Agents on the Anthropic API
An agent that reads a resume and surfaces companies with matching open roles, plus resume and job-description formatters that cut hours of cleanup out of every requisition.
Production automation, no developer
I direct Claude Code to specify, build, deploy, and maintain production Python and workflow automations, without a developer in the loop.

The shelved drawer

shelved

Not failures. Tuition. Each one comes with the field note I actually wrote down after.

No. 007

A 3D image generator app

Field note
I chased the technology before the use. Built a cool demo nobody needed. Now I start with the person who has the problem.

No. 008

A color-palette and wardrobe tool

Field note
I built it for myself and figured everyone else wanted it too. They did not. Now I make sure the need is real before I start.

No. 009

An occupation-code and wage-level generator

Field note
The data was too thin to trust, and trust was the whole product. Some things should not be automated until the inputs are solid.

Made for the joy of it

Not everything I make is useful, and that is deliberate. A few pieces from the shelf.

A grinning green gator holding a crystal-tipped staff, on a hot pink background

Generative art

Glitchy Gators

Ten thousand gators, no two alike, generated from more than three hundred attributes I drew by hand. An early experiment in building a system that makes things.

A grid of small hand-sculpted resin keycaps in bright colors

Sculpture

Tiny Keycaps

Keycaps sculpted, molded, and cast in resin. Tiny faces for a keyboard. Making something with your hands scratches a different itch.

A pencil sketch of an ornate sword with two eagle heads forming the guard

Sketch

Ornate Eagle Sword

A pencil sketch of a sword guarded by two eagles, borrowing from American and Japanese design at once. Drawn for no reason except wanting to see it.

The written ones live over in Writing.