Eugene Zhou
building things.
I build things to understand them. Write about what I learn. Chase whatever's interesting.
Oddly Useful Studios, live
The studio's public front, live since 2026-08-27: a light-only static site on its own eight-component design system, self-hosted type, an entrance scene, and eleven projects with three written case studies. Deployed by direct upload to Cloudflare Pages.
Static Portfolio & Content Engine
A statically exported Next.js portfolio in a pnpm monorepo: blog posts as Markdown files, a typed project catalog, a local swipefile export, and a Vercel deploy on every push.
Local-First AI Swipefile
A local JSON store, a rate-limited Twitter bookmark sync, and an LLM categorizer (a local Ollama model or a cloud API) that sorts bookmarks into public and private categories. The public ones render at /swipefile.
Test Kitchen: Git-Backed Recipe Lab Notebook
Applied formal doctoral research methodology and SOPs to cooking using Astro, TypeScript, and Git version control as an immutable lab notebook.
Build to understand
I make things to figure out how they work. Fast iteration over passive study.
Scientific rigor, modern velocity
Ph.D. research protocol meets AI pair programming to test hypotheses in code.
Proof over performance
Real receipts, documented failures, and open lab notebooks over performed expertise.
What I Think & Build Around
Four distinct themes where scientific rigor, autonomous code, and deep curiosity intersect.
AI-Native Product Engineering
How non-traditional developers and domain experts ship robust software using AI pairing, agent orchestration, and modern tools.
Biotech & Clinical Systems
Applying software architectures and domain depth to clinical trial data, competitive intelligence, and therapeutics.
Systematic Learning & R&D Notebooks
Applying doctoral research methodology, SOPs, and version control to cooking, decision-making, and personal development.
Autonomous Media & Personal Tooling
Building transparent personal AI agents, swipefile knowledge graphs, and content pipelines that scale trust.
I build things to learn how they work.
I'm not a traditional developer. I have a Ph.D. in clinical therapeutics and an MBA in strategy, but I spend most of my time now building systems with AI and writing about what interests me.
The bottleneck in software is no longer syntax—it is taste, architecture, and iterative rigor. AI tools handle the heavy lifting while I focus on what to build and why it matters.
Things I've built
Test Kitchen
A personal lab notebook for recipe development. Document variables, track outcomes, iterate systematically.
House of Weebs
Anime wall art from a store that runs on a production pipeline, with a human check on every piece.
CoffeeChatPro
A free course that prepares life-science students and recent graduates for better coffee chats, with optional credit-based AI tools.
Recent notes
Honest documentation on things I'm learning, building, or breaking.
Recent Swipes & Signals
https://t.co/DWYqOrQPyp
Likely a link to a useful tool or resource, possibly related to AI.
Send this to your video editors... Fastest Results I've found to create these fun, 3D animation ads: 1: Generate character with GPT using this prompt, "9X16 image of a 3D hyper-realistic character of (DESIRED CHARACTER), anthropomorphic wi...
Quick tip for creating 3D animation ads using GPT prompts and video editors.
the holy trinity of agentic UI: - https://t.co/ymclHB0RDA from @elirousso - https://t.co/DZLnezoft4 from @Ibelick - https://t.co/xzdoVQzSd5 from @vercel https://t.co/85CxIiFS85
The holy trinity of agentic UI - resources from @elirousso, @Ibelick, and @vercel
Stay in the loop on what I'm building.
Every week, I send a short digest of new build logs, curated swipefile items, and contrarian takeaways across AI, software, and biotech. Zero fluff.