Nigel's
Attempted thought.
Welcome to my corner of the web — a place where I keep what I'm working on, the things I read, and the occasional written thought. A collection of stuff that may or may not be interesting.
I'm Nigel Fernandes, a software engineer, husband, and dad. Sometimes I make stuff from wood, play instruments to make music and design games for kids.
Latest.
The most recent things I've written or built.
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SongCoach v1.2.0 — a stem for the singer
SongCoach now splits every song into four stems, including an isolated vocal, plus waveform markers to flag the riffs and changes — and a way to upgrade older recordings.
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CarCalc can now compare cars side by side
A new Compare tab in CarCalc puts up to three EVs head to head on specs alone — price, practicality, energy and ownership — with the best in each row marked, and a link you can share.
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SongCoach v1.1.0 — capture a whole playlist, hands-free
The second SongCoach release adds an Apple Music mode that auto-captures a playlist song by song, plus library search, delete, and export/import.
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CarCalc — how much electric car can you actually afford?
A Melbourne EV calculator that models novated lease vs loan vs cash, with running costs, insurance and resale for real cars baked in. No email required.
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SongCoach — pulling the drums out of any song
A local macOS app that isolates the drum track from any song so you can learn it, then play along to the backing track. The first release is out.
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CarCalc
A Melbourne EV calculator that compares novated lease, loan and cash — no email required.
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A colour per project
A tiny zsh utility that tints each terminal a stable colour per project, so parallel Claude Code sessions stop blurring together.
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SongCoach
A local macOS app that isolates the drums from any song so you can learn it, then play along.
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DrumCoach
An app that listens to you drum and coaches your timing.
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Spell to Fly
A geography game where you fly the map by spelling city names.
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MathGrid
A real-time multiplayer arithmetic race on a shared grid.
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Spelling Bee
A hangman-style spelling game for kids, built hands-off with Claude Code.