Projects

Things I've built for clients and myself. All self-hosted, on a VPS and a home server.

Skateland West
Live

Client website for a San Antonio skating rink, open since 1985. Self-hosted CMS the owner edits herself, event scheduling, and a newsletter. Launched May 2026.

Next.jsPayload CMSPostgresS3/MinIOTypeScript
La Donuts
Live

Client website for a family donut shop in Gillette, WY. Menu, hours, and phone-first ordering, built on the Skateland framework.

Next.jsPayload CMSPostgresTypeScript
BenchMark
Live

A field guide to park benches, photographed and rated. Locations come from photo EXIF data and render on a map.

AstroHonoLeafletDocker
Minesweeper Together
Live

Co-op multiplayer minesweeper. Share a room link and clear one board together with live cursors and per-player scores.

Node.jsWebSocketsVanilla JSDocker
Moss Creek Digital
Live

Site for my small studio doing custom web work, internal tooling, and automation.

AstroCloudflare WorkersCaddy
buford.dev
Live

This portfolio site. Statically generated and self-hosted, with CI-gated deploys and one-click rollback.

AstroMDXCaddyGitHub Actions
CloudPricing
Retired

Compared on-demand instance pricing across AWS, Azure, and GCP, pulling live rates from each provider's API across 2,800+ instances.

Rails 7PostgresChartkickTailwindDocker
SAMA Companion
Retired

Practice companion app for music lessons. Local-first architecture with SQLite for offline-first reliability.

ExpoSQLiteTypeScript