Aloud is a pun I'm fond of: allow + loud. Permission, granted to myself, to make some noise. aloud.me — allow me.
Why it exists
It started with a simple want: to reflect on my days, every day. But I'm lazy about writing — typing things out means lining thoughts up in order first, and my head doesn't enjoy that. My right arm doesn't either (long story, it's on /about-me). Speaking, though? Speaking is free.
So Aloud is voice-first: I talk about my day, the audio gets transcribed, and an AI editor tidies the rambling into clean prose — my words, my specifics, just… combed. Every entry you can read here began as me talking to my phone. So far: ….
There's a second reason, quieter. I've always loved reviewing things — shows, books, whatever I'm into. But the open internet stopped feeling like a fun place to do that. So I built my own corner instead: a safe zone where I can say what I want, review what I want, and ship whatever odd idea crosses my mind. My playground, my rules.
What's inside
- —A journal — spoken, polished, sometimes shared
- —A shelf — what I read and watch, with notes, quotes, and a meme wall per title
- —Daily photos — one frame per day
- —These pages — including the live widgets scattered around: it's {{clock plain}} here, this year is {{year plain}} gone, and every one of those numbers is computed as you watch
A quote from my shelf, picked fresh each load:
Built with
Next.js, a lot of late nights, and Claude riding shotgun. Working with AI changed the economics of ideas for me — the distance between “wouldn't it be fun if…” and “it's live” got very short. Ideas don't really run out anymore. Everything gets built to the same three rules, in order: useful first, simple always, beautiful when it counts.
Other experiments in the same spirit: a voice-driven to-do app — describe the task out loud, AI structures it and breaks out the subtasks.
Which of the widgets here is the coolest? Settle it:
Why any of this
Honestly — I don't know if any of it is useful to anyone else. But this is the one place where I get to be completely myself: no view counts, no reactions, no one to perform for. Just making the things I like, the way I like them. I hope you've got a place that feels like that too.
Thanks for spending some of your time here. The days themselves live at /journal.