I want to make websites that are helpful or give someone something to do. That sounds like a low bar, but plenty of websites don’t clear it.

Usually, an idea comes to mind and I start experimenting. I can imagine something useful, and building a prototype helps me figure out what the application could become. That has left me with a collection of projects at different stages: some active, some dormant, and some ready for another pass.

Lately, I’ve been returning to several of them with Codex. I have a limited token budget, so I have to think about where to spend each session. Sketchlet and Baker Parks get most of my attention. I’ve also revived Bakerversity, my e-learning platform, and brought my creative portfolio and this blog back into use.

Working this way puts some boundaries around my tendency to explore. I need to stay with a task long enough to make the session productive before my tokens run out. There are always other things I could build, but switching projects constantly would make it harder to finish anything.

When there’s downtime, I look for opportunities to contribute through writing. Most of my professional experience is in content, and these projects give me somewhere to use those skills alongside the technical work. The portfolio and blog are mostly built now. The next step is to use them more.