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Cody Magnuson builds systems by refusing to leave friction alone.

REDRIXX is the public trail of that habit: practical tools, community software, and a growing body of evidence that I can own complicated problems from idea to production.

Personal Bio
Why this work exists
The human context behind the portfolio, without sanding off the edges that made it real.

The path here was not linear.

After a layoff, I spent eight months unemployed while supporting a family of five and watching the market tighten. When work came back, it was not at the level I knew I could operate at. That gap became useful friction. REDRIXX started as a way to stay sharp, keep building, and prove the work in public.

Raider Pal began because ARC Raiders item data was scattered and slow to reason about. Haven began because community chat kept drifting away from the people it was supposed to serve. Both started from the same habit: find the friction, build the tool, learn from the consequences.

A lot of my motivation is personal. I have three daughters, and I want them to see daunting projects as puzzles, not walls. I want them to know you do not need permission to build something useful. You can start, test, improve, and keep going.

Builder Snapshot
How I work
A concise look at the habits behind the project work.

Ship From Ambiguity

I am comfortable starting from a messy problem, narrowing it into a product surface, and pushing it far enough that real people can use it.

Care About Correctness

Haven's security model is database-enforced through Postgres RLS, RPC boundaries, tests, and source-available code that can be inspected.

Work Across The Stack

Frontend, desktop, mobile, backend, CI, release infrastructure, and data modeling all show up in the same project work.

Build For People

The work is technical, but the judgment is human: reduce noise, respect communities, and make tools that feel accountable to users.

Operating Principles
The patterns I keep coming back to when the work gets complicated.
  • Prefer working software over elaborate theory.
  • Treat trust, permissions, and data access as first-class product problems.
  • Keep abstractions honest: extract them when they remove real complexity.
  • Document the decision when future-me will otherwise have to rediscover it.
Current Focus
The two public builds currently carrying the REDRIXX story.

Raider Pal

Live

Low-touch maintenance

ARC Raiders item explorer and crafting companion built around practical player lookup workflows.

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Haven

Active Production

Desktop + webiOS TestFlight

Source-available community chat platform with database-enforced permissions, realtime messaging, voice, and mobile distribution.

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