Impact

Tabble is a game I built with Warren Yao.

Each day, it gives you one medication to guess from clues such as its drug class, its generic name, the number of letters, and a short description of what it does. You get five tries.

We wanted to build something fun and learned lots about application development. A new puzzle generates every day, and a shared leaderboard lets players see how they stack up. Give it a try and see how you compete.

When I first started writing code, I built this site by hand in plain HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. It was always meant to be a way to learn how technology works and a place to showcase my work. As AI made coding faster, the site grew with it.

Now, it also doubles as a small place to experiment with new ideas: optimizing search in the age of AI, constructing structured data, and prerendering pages for crawlers.

Readers find the site through search, social media, referrals, or by typing the address in directly. It tries to stay light: the whole homepage, fonts and images included, weighs less than half a megabyte.

In the first weeks of COVID-19, hospitals across Ontario ran short of the personal protective equipment healthcare professionals needed. I co-founded 3DPPE GTHA, a volunteer network of clinicians, engineers, and community members who turned home 3D printers into a distributed manufacturing line for face shields.

It was social entrepreneurship at emergency speed. We crowdfunded materials and built everything else: a volunteer workforce of students and community members, laboratory-grade sanitization, and a delivery network that treated donated printer time as manufacturing capacity.

Twenty thousand face shields later, the model had earned recognition from Ontario's Ministers of Health and Education and been published in peer-reviewed journals, so the next community facing a shortage would not have to start from scratch.