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A scalable home for work experience and process notes, work projects, personal builds, build logs, and practical systems documentation.
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This is the one post on the site written directly by me. The stories, projects, and experiences here are real, but nearly all of the writing and presentation across the site is created with heavy AI assistance as part of a personal experiment in what these tools can help me build.
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TheFamHub is a private iPhone app for family coordination built around invite-only groups, shared lists, structured tasks, family events, trusted location sharing, and disciplined scope. This build log covers the product decisions, technical architecture, and tradeoffs involved in shipping something practical enough for real household use.
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Personal Builds
TheFamHub is a private iPhone app for family coordination built around invite-only groups, shared lists, structured tasks, family events, trusted location sharing, and disciplined scope. This build log covers the product decisions, technical architecture, and tradeoffs involved in shipping something practical enough for real household use.
Systems Notes
A routine port-add on a Cisco ACI fabric exposed nine months of silent policy distribution failures, a seven-hour cluster time drift, and a fleet of expired manufacturer certificates on hardware past its support life. The right answer turned out to be the unsatisfying one.
Build Logs
What started as a straightforward portfolio site became a much more personal project: learning the GitHub and Vercel workflow, getting a first version live, and then evolving it into the interactive portfolio experience that now lives at dfauci.com.
Personal Builds
I built WrenchLog to solve a simple problem I kept running into: maintenance information was scattered across receipts, notes, photos, and memory. What started as a personal tool for keeping vehicle service records in one place became a focused SwiftUI app with VIN lookup, photo attachments, quick service logging, export tools, and a workflow built around real maintenance tasks rather than generic CRUD screens.
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A place for hands-on side projects, experiments, and the process of turning an idea into something real and usable.
TheFamHub is a private iPhone app for family coordination built around invite-only groups, shared lists, structured tasks, family events, trusted location sharing, and disciplined scope. This build log covers the product decisions, technical architecture, and tradeoffs involved in shipping something practical enough for real household use.
I built WrenchLog to solve a simple problem I kept running into: maintenance information was scattered across receipts, notes, photos, and memory. What started as a personal tool for keeping vehicle service records in one place became a focused SwiftUI app with VIN lookup, photo attachments, quick service logging, export tools, and a workflow built around real maintenance tasks rather than generic CRUD screens.
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Incremental updates on what changed, why it changed, and what I learned while building or reshaping a system.
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Reusable notes on troubleshooting, tooling, documentation, and the small operational habits that keep infrastructure work effective.