Tinkers Workbench

Tinkers Workbench is a joke with production-grade carpentry behind it. Every surface is dressed in Comic Sans, rainbow-text headings, and glassmorphism panels, because anyone with a template can ship a clean portfolio. It takes more intent and more discipline to ship something this deliberately unhinged while keeping the code immaculate underneath. The tagline reads 'A developer who thinks Comic Sans is an aesthetic choice.' The footer gives it away: 'This site is satire. The code underneath is not.'

Under the costume it is a hand-rolled classic WordPress theme, no page builders. A visitor tracker filters bots at the application layer so the analytics I actually look at are the ones I care about. OpenGraph images are generated per post in PHP GD, which keeps the social preview layer on par with much larger sites without pulling in a third-party service. The post list covers real subjects, from shipping one codebase across web, desktop, and mobile, to building AI into real products instead of demos, to an honest rundown of the stack and why each piece is there.

Deploys run through a GitHub webhook on the same DigitalOcean droplet that hosts Aaron's Handyman. Merge to main, the webhook fires, the droplet pulls the latest code, and the site restarts. It is the short iteration loop of a modern platform sitting on top of the classic WordPress stack, which is exactly the joke the rest of the site is telling.