Hey there! Thank you for checking out Sauce. My name is Gaya Kessler and I create all sorts of things and write about it here on this little blog.
Blog posts
- From Idea to App in a Week - Meet Chord Mage! A practical guide to building and launching a web app in just one week. Covers idea validation, rapid development, scope management, and learning from real user feedback. Added on 2025/4/8
- Eliminating Speaker Hum (Focusrite, USB-C, Yamaha HS5, and HDMI) The hunt for a group loop hum in a Focusrite Scarlett 4i4, USB-C, Yamaha HS5, and HDMI setup. Added on 2025/3/18
- Helping to Build a Self-Driving Robot I helped a kid build a self-driving robot at my volunteering job Added on 2025/2/25
- Bake Your Own Bread Growing and making your own food is very rewarding. Added on 2025/2/19
- Don't buy a new guitar, change it! You don't need to buy a guitar to change it! I turned my HSS stratocaster into a SSS stratocaster. Added on 2025/1/8
- Modding my Guitar with a HPF Modded my Yamaha Revstar RS620 a bit. Went from a coil split to implementing a high pass filter Added on 2024/12/20
- Advent of Code 2024 - Day 7 A great example of thinking outside of the exponential box Added on 2024/12/7
- Advent of Code 2024 - Day 4 Word search in the form of a programming puzzle Added on 2024/12/4
- Advent of Code 2024 - Day 3 RegExp day! Added on 2024/12/3
- Advent of Code 2024 - Day 2 Dissecting day two of Advent of Code 2024 in TypeScript Added on 2024/12/3
- Advent of Code 2024 - Day 1 Joining AoC 2024 again in TypeScript. Here are my findings of day one Added on 2024/12/2
- Hello this is Sauce In an effort to share more of the DIY I do I launched Sauce Added on 2024/11/26
- DIY Plate Designer Tool to design your own 19" or Eurorack plates and download a usable CAD file. Added on 2022/12/5
- Improved versions of Frankensoil There have been three versions of Frankensoil since the first one. I'll show you the progress here. Added on 2022/11/17
- Hacking Le Strum How I modified Le Strum with nicer playable buttons Added on 2022/11/15
- Frankensoil 1.0, my first custom MIDI controller build. How I created my first ever custom-made MIDI controller. Added on 2022/11/11
Let's get in touch!
Do you have any questions about my projects, want to have some custom work done for yourself or just want to elaborate? Email me at gaya@theclevernode.com of drop a line below: