Projects

Case studies: research tooling, macOS utilities, and this website — problem, role, stack, artifact.
cole@press:~$ ls ~/projects/ 
cole_press/    macOSMoveTo/    pandoc-apa7/    thesis-analysis/

Evidence over adjectives. Each entry lists the problem, what I personally built, the stack, a specific artifact, and where things stand.

cole.press

Active
problem
A personal site that is itself a portfolio artifact — the design, engineering, and writing are the evidence, not the wrapper around it.
role
Design and build, solo: information architecture, light and dark terminal themes, components, content, deployment.
stack
Quarto, SCSS, JavaScript, Netlify, self-hosted Anonymous Pro.
artifact
Live site → Source →
status
Active. Shipped: light/dark terminal themes, Buttondown newsletter integration. Ongoing: accessibility and SEO iteration.

macOSMoveTo

Shipped
problem
Finder has no native "Move to…" Quick Action — moving a file means drag-and-drop or clipboard workarounds.
role
Identified the workflow gap; designed, packaged, tested, and documented the utility.
stack
Automator, AppleScript.
artifact
Source & install guide →
status
Shipped. Installable Automator workflow with documented install and usage.

Thesis Analysis Workflow

In preparation
problem
Reproducible longitudinal psychometric analysis and automated reporting for the master's thesis (mindfulness-based behavioral activation for depression) — every table and figure regenerates from data, with no hand-edited numbers.
role
Sole analyst: data collection, cleaning, psychometrics, longitudinal analysis, automated reporting.
stack
R, Quarto.
artifact
Public synthetic/de-identified demo in preparation — no participant data will ever be published.
status
In preparation. Data collection and analysis complete; manuscript in progress.

pandoc-apa7 archived / experimental fork

Archived
problem
Draft academic manuscripts in Markdown and compile to APA 7th-edition LaTeX/PDF — an APA writing workflow without Word.
role
Experimental fork: updated an open-source APA6 pandoc template for APA 7.
stack
pandoc, LaTeX (apa7 class), BibLaTeX.
artifact
Source →
status
Archived. Work-in-progress experiment, last touched 2022; kept public for reference.