A century of proven and alleged US foreign interventions, filed as one courier company's shipment records. Every case gets a waybill, a tracking history, a rubber stamp saying how proven the US role is, and a sober page for the people who received it.
Jim has ADHD.This is where the hobbies live.
Hi, I'm Jim. I love to tinker, and I often get slightly obsessed.
When an obsession turns into something real, it gets its own subdomain and a story here about how it happened.
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The issues
Newest first. Every one is a hobby that got its own subdomain.
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A Japan itinerary spreadsheet turned into a phone app: 27 themed days, every hotel on a map, walking directions, what's paid, and a morning briefing read out by the phone. Plus a progress bar to death.
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Every artist in my Spotify library as a star, joined by the sounds, moods, traditions, producers and people they share. Click a star for a preview, pick a genre to change the vibe, or ask for the bridge between Bloodywood and Alcest. An early map that keeps growing as more of my library is ingested.
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BonziBUDDY, but honest. A purple gorilla for your desktop who collects nothing, with shell-fur rendering, cyber security tips with sources, a Windows 95 download page, a counter of how many people ran a stranger's .exe, and a question for 2026. We tried desktop agents once before. What did we learn?
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A basic pale ale, scrolled through a fourteen-machine brewery at a scale I've never brewed at. Really an experiment in guiding an AI drawing skill, and in what it could do for teaching.
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Four D&D campaigns since 2019 lived in Scabard, Google Docs, text files and a group chat. Now they live in one codex, with maps, a calendar, a timeline and a graph of who knows whom.
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My bike-trip spreadsheet grew a map, a router, a bed-finder and a bear warning. Five planned trips across Japan, Korea and Taiwan, plus the ones already ridden.
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Every ramen shop I've eaten at in Japan, mapped and ranked D to S, with a score for Zuzutto, the slurp factor.
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The first project is the place that holds all the other projects. Naturally.
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My Japanese is "fine". This is the plan to make it useful, fast: practical Japanese for real situations, built on what polyglots and language research say actually works.
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School pickup, coordinated. A mobile-first app that tells staff who's arriving and when, so the line at the gate moves. A Precognition Factory product, on its way.
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A tower defense roguelike about delaying the rise of AGI. Made with AI, about AI, and balanced by AI. The whole thing is AI.
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A DM's table tool for one very pointy trial: a flock of small fowl with rapiers for faces, a grid of flagstones, and a level 5 party who all have to touch the orb and get back out.
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My AI consultancy, opening soon: Responsible AI, AI policy, AI guardrails and AI fluency training. For now the agents are asleep.
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A simple goal that got out of hand: ride through every single Sydney suburb, and map every ride. 644 of 660 done.
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5,770 unique beers from 6,675 check-ins, and a quest since 2011 to drink one from every country. 121 of 195 possible places ticked off so far, and 137 reviews to prove it.
A word from Jim
"Slightly obsessed" means too many hobbies. Not "I like a few things." More like a new obsession every few weeks, a browser with forty tabs about it, and a burning need to tell someone all about it.
The people around me have heard enough. So this site is where it goes instead.
Every hobby that gets far enough to become a real thing gets its own subdomain. And every subdomain gets a story.
How it works
- Something grabs my attention and won't let go.
- I build a small app or site about it and deploy it to
something.jimhasadhd.fyi. - I write up the story here: what hooked me, what I built, and what I learned before the next shiny thing turned up.
Why "Jim has ADHD"
Because it's true, and it explains a lot. Starting things is the fun part, and I start a lot of things. Some become great, some stall halfway, and some get quietly abandoned. The stories here are honest about which is which. Every project has a status, and "abandoned, fondly" is a perfectly good one.
What you'll find
Anything, really. If I've been talking about it too much lately, it's probably here, or it will be soon.