ContractorKeith About
who i am
i’m ContractorKeith — 37 years in construction. electrician, plumber, GC, home builder, estimator, PM, owner, and anything else you can think of. currently estimating div32 for a fence contractor in central florida.
what this is
a couple years ago i started trying to learn code. i’ve broken more things than i ever did building buildings, but i’m getting somewhere. this site is where i write about what i’m building, what i’m learning, and whatever else comes to mind.
i build with ai - claude/codex/grok/etc., and other ai assistants. not because i can’t read docs, but because they make it possible for someone like me to actually ship things.
what i’m working on
- plan-markup-app — a mac-native pdf takeoff tool for fence estimating. my answer to bluebeam bloat. repo’s private while it’s rough.
- pancreati app — a privacy-first tracker for chronic pancreatitis patients. i live with CP, and i’m building the tool i wished existed: meal logging, pain tracking, enzyme schedules, and recipes that won’t put you in the ER.
- workspace-cli — one rust CLI for all of google workspace, built from google’s discovery service at runtime
- homebrew-cli-toolbelt — 40+ modern cli tools for macos in one install, with cheatsheets
- ai-writing-skill — a claude code skill that keeps AI slop out of my writing. every post here goes through it.
- this site — built with astro, deployed to cloudflare pages
the full list lives on the projects page and my github.