Start with the how.
The interesting part is learning what is happening beneath the surface.
CODE. TRAILS. TORQUE.
A few different worlds.
One curious mind.
PERSONAL GARAGEBuilt to drive.
Built to drive.
Kept by hand.
Opening the garage…
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Move your pointer to look around.
MY OWN CAR. MY OWN HANDS.
I work on my own car. There's something satisfying about understanding the machine you spend so much time with.
Same curiosity.
Different hardware.
Software is one way I like to understand a system. Working on my own car is another. The appeal is the same: look closer, learn something, and turn that understanding into something useful.
Follow the question.
Curiosity is a good reason to spend more time in the garage.
Make it hands-on.
There is real satisfaction in working on something yourself.
The manual is long.
The job is not.
A factory manual answers every question except which page you need. Two tools close that gap — one saves the pages, the other turns them into a single sheet I can follow on a phone with no signal.
01 / SAVE
TIS page saver
A Chrome extension that saves the manual page you are reading as one self-contained file, images embedded, filed into folders that mirror the navigation tree of the manual itself.
View the extension 02 / BUILDJob sheet skill
A Claude Code skill that reads those saved pages and writes the procedure in the order the work happens — pre-flight checklist, torque table, and the ordering traps that cost a second teardown.
View the skill 03 / FOLLOWExample sheet
What comes out the other end: rear brake pads, from the tool check through to the road test, tickable on a phone under the car. Figures invented for the demonstration.
Open the sheetBoth tools need your own manual subscription. Nothing here bypasses a paywall or redistributes manual content, and the example sheet carries invented figures for the same reason. Source: service-manual-offline-kit.
✳Room to explore.
Pick an app. Follow your curiosity.
PERSONAL DESKTOP · 01Pick an app. Follow your curiosity.
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