⚙ Doctrine & Reference
Craft that survives transmission.A field reference for software engineers: scoping work, debugging methodology, collaboration, architecture vs. design decisions, and learning practices. Synthesizes practical wisdom from books, mentors, and hard-won lessons. Every entry survived stress-testing. Military format and voice—on purpose.
engineers-manual.com
An opinionated specification for building sound, safe, and secure MCP servers. Having a view beats “it depends.”
Canonical spec for building static websites with Eleventy, Tailwind CSS 4, and Stimulus. Scaffolding shouldn’t be an act of memory. MIT licensed.
Documentation site for the Quartermaster gem, built with Quartermaster itself.
Interactive reference for the Lippitt-Knoster model of managing complex change. Know what’s load-bearing before you start pulling.
✎ Writings
Essays. The building and the writing are the same impulse.A literary web story by Tommy A. Caruso Sr.
A personal essay.
A literary essay by Tommy A. Caruso Sr.
A short essay on listening, in web form.
▶ Stories & Interactive
Narrative with architecture underneath. Continuity is a design constraint.Nightly serialized AI fiction where reader signals shape pacing and tone, while a story bible and quality gates protect the narrative. No retcons. No character drift. Every chapter remembers what came before. Reproducible craft applied to storytelling.
nightloom-stories.com
An interactive story.
Daily morning/evening checklist for Sean. Compress competence into something a person can actually receive.
🔨 Tools & Open Source
Automate the work that should not be manual. If you reach for the adjustable wrench twice on the same task, that’s a smell.Provision static websites and Rails applications from a canonical specification. MIT licensed Ruby gem.
Prevent orphaned Rails migrations in development and staging environments. Put it in CI and stop checking by hand.
Production-grade uptime monitoring, built in the open with AI pair programming.
Shell scripts for VPN automation tasks.
💼 VetMG Media
The base layer. Running since 2014, in parallel with everything else.We make contractors financing-ready. Most residential contractors lose high-ticket jobs because they don’t qualify for customer financing programs—lenders require a professional web presence. VetMG builds financing-ready websites they own outright. No subscriptions. No lock-in. Veteran-owned. Contractor-focused.
vetmgmedia.com
A field reference for software engineers. What veterans know shouldn’t die with them. Military format and voice, on purpose. Published under VetMG.
Open-source platform making Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills accessible. Emotional regulation, mindfulness, interpersonal effectiveness, distress tolerance. Not a portfolio piece.
⚒ Applications
Larger builds. Some public, some not.TypeScript application.
Tiny Code Factory platform. MIT licensed.
Web application built with TCF. MIT licensed.
Reference application for the rails-migration-guard gem.
Demo application.
🌐 Websites
Client and personal static sites.🎓 Learning & Exercises
The work you do before the work matters. Train how you fight.Collaboration filter in Ruby.
Conway’s Game of Life in Ruby.
Meal planning Ruby application.
General scratch pad and experiments. Throw a pot. MIT licensed.
HTML/CSS project from The Odin Project.
Simple spinner for the game Twister.
HTML composition reference.