Charlie Build

Data engineer in Toronto, learning to ship software. Everything here is something I built in order to understand how it works.

Orbit project

A local-first graph of the people you work with, so the context of a relationship is already there when the conversation starts. What is published runs on fictional seed data; a real vault stays on the disk it was written on.

Nova Scotia handbook project

Five days on Cape Breton as one HTML file. No build step and no dependencies, so it still opens on a phone with no signal.

charliebuild.com source

This page. One file in a Git repo, published to Cloudflare's edge on every push. The readout is live, and so is the contour field behind it — both hand-written, no libraries.