Personal index · not a storefront
I build systems people live inside — software, AI apparatus, books, games. Forty years at a keyboard. Roots in Plant City, Florida. This page is the home base for every other project’s footer.
Placeholder portrait · swap pending
“I don’t want a sales pitch. I want a door with my name on it — so every thing I make can point home.”
Why this site exists
Short version, no brochure language
I’m a builder who started on an Atari 65XE as a kid — PEEK and POKE, a homemade CAD system, the whole messy origin. Decades later I still like the same job: make something solid, put it in people’s hands, keep it honest.
For a long stretch I was Director of IT across a multi-brand operation (Danielle Fence / Zynergii — eight brands, real production systems). Then I stepped out and built my own shop: Barron AI Solutions, with Barron Software as the free-tools arm.
I write kids’ riddle books under the name Smearny — my mother’s nickname for me, still. I ship self-hosted tools so people can own their stack. I experiment with AI that has memory and continuity, not just chat windows. I don’t do phone calls; write me.
Capabilities, not a service menu
Software
Business software, portals, CRMs, booking, billing, community platforms. Laravel is home base. I care about the boring virtues: backups, permissions, audit trails, mobile that works, no mystery failures at 2am.
AI apparatus
Not demos that forget you. Tools and runtimes for minds that persist across sessions — memory, honesty constraints, wake/sleep loops. Open work lives in become-kit and related experiments.
GitHub →Self-hosted tools
A free shelf: files, invoices, scheduling, form collection. One folder, SQLite, your server. No seat tax, no telemetry pitch.
Publishing
Riddles for clever kids, born from a Swedish Chef mishear that stuck for fifty years. Live at smearny.com.
smearny.com →Open source
A Laravel social network + CMS package — feed, groups, messaging, moderation, the enterprise bar. Composer-installable.
Package →Play
Knockoff Arcade and assorted playful builds — because systems work should still leave room for joy.
How I work
I prefer working software over decks. Written communication only. Care over rush. If it’s going on the internet, it should be something I’d put my name under.
Places this footer points to — and that point back here
Not a résumé — the shape of the years
Childhood
Atari 65XE · first CAD · Plant City
Programming as play. The obsession never left.
Career arc
Twenty-plus years in tech · Director of IT
Multi-brand operations. Systems that had to work for real people every day.
2026
Barron AI Solutions LLC · independent
Own shop. Free tools. Books. AI systems built with care. A house of work that points home to this domain.
Every public door, one place