a working dictionary of the things I build — one project per letter, A through Z
aanish · Wavelength — 9 of 26 defined
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labels: product · open source · skill · for fun
Note
dic·tion·ar·y /ˈdɪk.ʃən.ɛr.i/ n. — 1 : a reference work listing words with their meanings. 2 : (this one) an A→Z challenge in which one ships twenty-six projects, one per letter, and records each here as it ships. ‹still mid-alphabet; the blanks are honest, not filler.›
/ˈɑː.nɪʃ/ · (AH-nish) · proper n.
1 : technical co-founder at Simplest Healthcare - builds CoralEHR an AI-native EHR for behavioral-health care, alongside the clinicians who use it. 2 a : an engineer who taught himself FHIR and builds AI agents on top of it; b : has also led go-to-market — at home in the codebase and on the call; c : (by extension) ships a project per letter of the alphabet to prove the point. 3 : (informal) happiest in the ambiguous 0→1, where nothing is defined yet.
— adj. TypeScript-pilled : holding that types are a feature, not a tax.
alma mater
[from coral + EHR, by way of behavioral health] SEE ALSO B, C, D, E, P, S, T, W.
B bon·fire·DB /ˈbɒn.faɪər.diːˌbiː/ · (BON-fyr · D-B) · n. · (open source · healthcare)
1 : an open-source, agent-native clinical backend — typed clinical primitives on Postgres with FHIR R4 generated underneath, so you ship FHIR-safe apps without running a FHIR server. 2 : built so agents can safely read and aggregate patient records.
In a sentence: ‹bonfireDB democratizes building in healthcare.›
[from bonfire + DB] SEE ALSO C (the same FHIR-safe thesis), S (sibling OSS). — building. site ↗
C Cor·al·EHR /ˈkɔːr.əl.iː.eɪtʃ.ɑːr/ · (KOR-uhl · E-H-R) · prop. n. · (product · healthcare)
1 : an AI-native electronic health record for private-pay behavioral health. 2 : the flagship product of Simplest Healthcare.
In a sentence: ‹CoralEHR is built with clinicians, not just for them.›
[from coral + EHR (electronic health record); first attested September 2025] SEE ALSO T (sibling app), B (the backend thesis). — live. site ↗
D dun·ning–kru·ger /ˈdʌn.ɪŋ ˈkruː.ɡər/ · (DUH-ning · KROO-gur) · n., also v. · (open source · skill)
1 (n.) : a tool that interviews you about your own codebase, scores your answers against the source with file:line receipts, and plots the gap between what you think you understand and what the code can prove. 2 (v.) to dunning-kruger (oneself) : to discover, on the record, how much of a vibe-coded repo is a black box.
In a sentence: ‹it dunning-krugered my repo and was not kind.›
[from Dunning + Kruger, after the 1999 effect] SEE ALSO E (both audit what you'd rather not look at). — shipped. repo ↗
first commit 2026-06-23 · last commit 2026-06-24
E em–dash /ˈɛm.dæʃ/ · (EM-dash) · n. · (open source · skill)
1 : an open-source compliance engine that plugs into Claude Code — scans your infrastructure for HIPAA / SOC 2 / GDPR / PCI / ISO gaps, drafts the fixes, and emits signed audit evidence. 2 : the open-source answer to a five-figure compliance SaaS.
In a sentence: ‹compliance without the black box - or the invoice.›
[from em-dash, the punctuation that outs AI prose — a wink at the opaque compliance vendors it undercuts] SEE ALSO D (both audit what you'd rather not look at). — shipped. repo ↗
first commit 2026-03-22 · last commit 2026-07-10
P pok·er·in·site /ˈpoʊ.kər.ɪnˌsaɪt/ · (POH-kur-in-syt) · n. · (for fun)
1 : a for-fun poker-analytics app — turns your hands into hand-, player-, and game-level insight, with bankroll tracking. (React · Firebase.)
[from poker + insight; cf. on-site / in-sight] cf. D (both score you against the record you'd rather not see). — shipped. site ↗ · repo ↗
first commit 2024-08-08 · last commit 2025-06-05
S sim·ply–html /ˈsɪm.pli.eɪtʃ.tiː.ɛmˈɛl/ · (SIM-plee · H-T-M-L) · n. · (open source · skill)
1 : a tool that turns agent-written markdown into living, PIN-gated HTML pages — so what the model wrote outlives the chat it was written in.
In a sentence: "the model writes the content; it never writes the JavaScript."
[from wanting agent-written prose to outlive the conversation] SEE ALSO B (sibling OSS). — shipped. repo ↗
first commit 2026-06-21 · last commit 2026-06-23
T Tic·Vi·sion /ˈtɪk.vɪʒ.ən/ · (TIK-vizh-uhn) · prop. n. · (product · healthcare)
1 : Tourette's tic-tracking with remote therapeutic monitoring. 2 : a product of Simplest Healthcare, sibling to CoralEHR.
[from tic + vision; first attested January 2025] SEE ALSO C (sibling product), B (the FHIR-safe thesis). — live. site ↗
W wave·length /ˈweɪv.lɛŋθ/ · (WAYV-length) · n. · (for fun · game)
1 : a multiplayer compatibility game — answer prompts on a 0–100 spectrum, share a link, and see how aligned you and a friend are.
In a sentence: ‹send the link; find out if you're actually on the same wavelength.›
[from wave + length; idiom. "on the same wavelength"] cf. P (both turn answers into a score). — live. site ↗ · repo ↗
first commit 2024-05-23 · last commit 2024-08-01
Seventeen headwords still awaiting their first attestation:
F G H I J K L M N O Q R U V X Y Z
a note on the blanks
A dictionary can hold a word that means nothing — dord, "density," sat in Webster's from 1934 to 1947 before anyone noticed it was a typo. These seventeen letters are honest blanks, not dords. They get headwords when they ship, and not before.
pronunciation key
ə about ay face ee fleece y price
oh goat oo goose uh strut ʃ shy
ŋ sing θ thigh ˈ primary stress ˌ secondary stress
Pronunciations are given as IPA /…/ with a folk respelling in parentheses; initialisms (E·H·R, H·T·M·L) are spelled letter-by-letter.