Author

Will Curran

I spent sixteen years building one company, and I have been in the event industry since 2007. These days I write about the technology I actually use — trucks, radios, home infrastructure, and the tools that survive past the first invoice.

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Field notes

Walk the Room: What Live Events Taught Me About Checks That Lie

At a live show the console can say everything is fine, and you still walk to the back of the room to listen. I spent sixteen years building Endless Events, and this post carries that habit into my DJ, music and home builds: the checks that ...

4 min read
Mesh & radio

Trivia Over LoRa: a game show on a slow, lossy radio mesh

I built a trivia game show for a LoRa radio mesh, where every message has to fit in 200 bytes and might never arrive. Designing around airtime, lost packets and an audience I couldn't see turned out to be a lot like running a live show.

8 min read
Builds

How I Rebuilt willcurran.com With Claude Design and Claude Code

This site ran on an off-the-shelf HubSpot theme for years. Dark, competent, generic. Roboto and Lato, a coral accent I never chose, and a layout that looked like a hundred other sites built from the same marketplace listing. It worked. It ...

8 min read
Music & DJ

Beat-Synced Visuals for a Whole DJ Library

I built a way to give every track in my DJ library its own visuals, matched to the song's phrases and synced to the beat. The estimate for the whole library ran to six figures, and switching to short loops cut the estimated cost per song ...

7 min read
Field notes

My Camping and Overlanding Packing List

Everything we carry, listed by where it actually lives in the truck — cab, molle panels, frunk, bed, gear tunnel, fridge, and seven numbered packs.

6 min read