~/justrhoads $ whoami
Justin Rhoads.
Software engineer who thinks like an architect, builds like a founder, and never stops experimenting.
$ now
- building
- The Ocho, Kid Mode for Apple Watch, an Apple TV motion game, and tooling so AI agents can build side by side
- reading
- Emotionally Healthy Spirituality
- golf
- handicap: +vibes
- following
- Arkansas · Lakers · Saints · Cowboys
last updated Nov 2026
● live · iOS · v1.6 · 01/02
Scripture you keep for good.
Memorize a passage a few minutes a day, then keep it fresh with spaced reviews. Free, no account, works offline.



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Read, then recite
Arrange the words, fill the blanks, then say it from memory — each step a little harder.
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Say it out loud
On-device speech recognition checks your recitation word by word.
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Reviews that stick
Spaced repetition brings each verse back right before you would forget it.
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Recite to unlock
An optional Screen Time lock: one verse before the scroll.
● live · iOS · v1.0 · 02/02
Debugger Hero — fix the AI, dodge the bugs.Fix the AI, dodge the bugs.
A landscape twin-stick shooter across seven realms run by very broken AI megacorps.
$ ls ~/lab
Experiments, side projects, and things built because I wanted to see if I could.
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Device Warden
Lets several Claude Code agents share one Mac’s simulators, emulators, and dev-server ports without stepping on each other.
Agents claim what they use and see what the others hold. A guard blocks tearing down another agent’s device unless I approve it, a session-start hook briefs every agent, and leases from dead sessions clean themselves up.
- Node
- Claude Code hooks
- xcrun · adb
- Agents
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The Ocho
An ad-free tracker for my six teams, with live scores, Live Activities, and a home screen widget.
A Cloudflare Worker sits between the app and ESPN, a Python lab rates every team and forecasts games, and Claude writes the daily digest.
- Expo
- Cloudflare Workers
- Python
- Claude
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Kid Mode
Turns the watch into a toddler-proof play screen: bubbles, animals, peekaboo, and color splashes.
Each scene reacts to touch, the Digital Crown, haptics, and real animal recordings. The only way out is holding a small ✕ still.
- SwiftUI
- watchOS
- Haptics
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Toddler Motion
A game where a toddler plays by moving. An iPhone becomes the TV’s camera, and motion turns into music and animals.
No fail states and nothing to read. Notes lock to a pentatonic scale so any wiggle sounds good, and every frame stays on-device.
- SwiftUI
- SpriteKit
- Vision
- AVAudioEngine
$ cat about.md
I'm Justin — a software engineer, architect, and endlessly curious builder.
I specialize in crafting mobile experiences, designing scalable systems, and exploring how emerging technologies like AI can change the way we build software. I love solving hard problems, simplifying complexity, and helping teams turn ambitious ideas into great products.
By day I'm an Expert Software Engineer at J.B. Hunt. Meno and Debugger Hero are what happens on nights and weekends.
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Thinks like an architect
Scalable systems, clear boundaries, and taking complexity apart before it compounds.
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Builds like a founder
From first sketch to the App Store: product, design, code, and the last 10% that makes it ship.
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Experiments for fun
AI, new tools, and side projects that exist only to find out whether they can.
~/off-hours $ ls
When I'm not writing code, you'll probably find me spending time with my wife and son, studying theology, playing golf, or building something entirely unnecessary just because I wanted to see if I could.
$ cat family/README.md
Wife, son, and the best reason to close the laptop
Kid Mode and the Apple TV game started as things built for my son. He is still the toughest QA team I have.
$ cat theology/README.md
Studying Scripture and theology
Reading, studying, and memorizing. Meno exists because I wanted a better way to keep passages for good.
meno →$ cat golf/README.md
Always one swing away from fixing it
Handicap: +vibes. I play for the walk, the company, and the one good shot a round that brings me back.
$ cat game-day/README.md
Woo Pig Sooie
Arkansas football, basketball, and baseball, plus the Lakers, the Saints, and the Cowboys. I built The Ocho to follow all six without ads.
the ocho →Code lives on GitHub.
Building something? Say hi.

