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A civic reference app, a puzzle game, and a woodshop.

Three things that look unrelated until you see how they get made. Software that earns every claim on the box, and pieces cut and finished one at a time on a bench.

The rest of the practice

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Fine woodworking

Cutting boards, coasters, bottle stoppers and small pieces — including a laser-cut map of the fifty states, each one stained so the grain still reads through the color, and each one holding its own quarter. Made to order and finished by hand, one at a time.

A laser-cut map of the United States, each state cut from plywood, stained, and holding its commemorative quarter End-grain cutting board in walnut, cherry and maple, with the maker's mark branded into one corner Four turned bottle stoppers in segmented and burl wood, one cast in clear resin A single end-grain coaster in white oak, its blocks arranged in a pinwheel
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DoD Budget Explorer

Thousands of Pentagon budget justification documents, pulled from six official sites, parsed, and made searchable in one place — so an analyst, a congressional staffer, or a reporter can stop opening a dozen government websites to answer one question. It is open source and runs on your own machine; the corpus is far too large to host for you. If you want to see the kind of information system we build, read this one.

Boilerplate has the merch

When you need a little reminder of your favorite solution maker, we have you covered. Pour something hot and get back to solving life’s problems.

Get in touch

Commissions, questions about anything we’re building, or anything else.

contact@boiler-plate.com
Boilerplate LLC
Virginia, United States