Outside work / creative page
Following GenAI Trends
Brendan enjoys following new AI tools, experiments and odd little tech ideas because curiosity is part of the fun.
Hands-on experiments
Building with AI
Exploring what's possible by actually building it — vibe-coded tools, workflow agents and the early stages of a personal AI assistant stack.
Vibe coded
This website
Built iteratively with Claude Code. The CV, blog, playground and outside-work sections all written and shipped with AI pair programming.
Blog creator
A custom tool that takes a topic and produces a structured, styled post ready to publish straight to the CMS — no blank page needed.
AI assistant
A chatbot trained on my background that answers questions about my experience, projects and approach. Live on this site — try it.
Apps built
MindFlow
A gamified productivity app for capturing ideas, reviewing them daily and actually getting things done.
Clubable
A sports club management platform for everyone on the pitch — players, coaches, parents and committees.
BrickStack
LEGO inventory for collectors and resellers — scan parts, look up prices and track stock across every box.
Workflow agents
Blog automation with N8N
My blog is powered by a multi-step N8N workflow. Research is gathered automatically, a human-in-the-loop step lets me decide what to write, and the approved post is published straight to the CMS. An early example of agentic workflows handling the repetitive parts while keeping me in control of the decisions that matter.
Personal assistants — in progress
Hermes
An always-on personal assistant being configured to handle context, reminders and research — the start of a personal AI stack that works for me specifically.
In progressOpenClaw
A second assistant running alongside Hermes, experimenting with different open-source models and memory approaches to find what actually works for daily personal use.
In progressWhy I enjoy it
The curiosity
This page is for interesting AI experiments, homelab tinkering and tools Brendan enjoys playing with outside formal work.