Platform architect

Chris House

Software, games,
and woodworking.

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01THE NOTEBOOK

Notes from the work.

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AI & agentsOct 20, 20269 min read

Two Claude Code Mods: A Spend Meter and a Kube Context Picker

Claude Code mods let you change the CLI itself: a row above the prompt, a docked sidebar, a slash command, a guard on tool calls. One of my mods shows what I am spending. The other decides which Kubernetes clusters Claude is allowed to touch and colors them red or green, and the same idea works for databases, logs and any other environment where dev and prod sit side by side.

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02BUILT HERE

A few things that work.
And a few that play.

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Machinery and a dark corridor aboard the Meridian in Dead Signal
01 / BROWSER GAMEWEBGL · AUDIO · ATMOSPHERE

Dead Signal

A strange signal. An empty ship. A world built for the browser.

YEAR
2026
STACK
three.js · Web Audio
STATUS
Live
A jet ski racing across the water in Wake Rush
02 / MULTIPLAYERTHREE.JS · REALTIME

Wake Rush

Salt spray, ramp jumps, and a little 90s arcade energy.

YEAR
2026
STACK
three.js · Realtime rooms
STATUS
Live
THE EXPERIMENTS KEEP GOINGCome press some buttons.
03AWAY FROM THE SCREEN

Still making.
Different tools.

Furniture, cutting boards, and spaces rebuilt by hand. The same curiosity, with a little more sawdust.

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Two wooden beer-flight paddles Chris made, each holding three glassesFROM THE WORKSHOP / BEER-FLIGHT PADDLES
04USEFUL BY DESIGN

Less tab hunting.
More getting it done.

Small developer tools for the work between the big ideas.