Cooper Wargo.
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Personal site · 2026

Cooper Wargo.

I'm 14, I go to Kingwood Park High School in Humble, Texas, and I like building things — in Minecraft, in code, and on the web. Currently making my mom's bakery site smarter with a little AI.

EmailCasa MariaGitHubYouTube
01 — What I'm building

Projects.

Live · v2 in progress

Casa Maria.

Design, code, and the AI parts · 2026
Next.jsTailwindAILocal business

A site for my mom's small bakery in Humble, Texas. She bakes bread — sourdough, conchas, pan dulce — and I'm building the place online where people can find her, see what's fresh, and order pickup. I'm adding a small AI helper that answers questions about the menu and what's in the oven today.

  • Designed and shipped the first version solo
  • Adding an AI menu assistant for orders and questions
  • Daily 'what's baking' updates from a single Google Sheet
Visit thecasamaria.comSee the admin demo
More projects on the way — Minecraft server, AI tools, COD edits.soon.
02 — On rotation

Now playing.

GameJava Edition · most nights

Minecraft 1.21

Survival world with a couple friends. Currently building an automatic sorting system with hopper minecarts.

GameSquad with the boys

Call of Duty: Warzone

Mostly Resurgence. Working on a movement clip reel for YouTube. ARs over SMGs, fight me.

ToolDaily driver

Cursor + Claude

Where I do most of my coding. Pair-programming with AI is how I learned to ship Casa Maria.

WatchingYouTube

Hermitcraft S10

Mumbo and Grian episodes the day they drop. Half education, half background noise while I build.

ReadingSelf-taught

Next.js 15 docs

App Router, Server Components, all of it. Slowly making sense.

BuildingSide project

A Minecraft server

Spinning up a small SMP for friends from KPHS. Plugins, whitelist, the works.

03 — Bits and pieces

Fragments.

quote
Making something out of nothing is the best feeling there is — Minecraft, code, websites, doesn't matter.
From a notebook, 2026
note
Freshman at Kingwood Park HS, building Casa Maria v2, learning Python on the side.
Right now
link
Hermitcraft S10 episode 47 — Grian's super-smelter is unreal.
Open tab
list
Ship something every weekend. Read the docs. Ask for help. No camping in COD.
Personal rules
quote
A 1:1 scale Kingwood Park in Minecraft. Half-joking. Mostly serious.
Dream build
note
RTX 3060, 27" 1440p, mechanical keyboard with brown switches, one too many tabs open.
Setup
link
How LLMs actually work under the hood — tokens, embeddings, attention.
Currently learning
quote
If you can build it in Minecraft, you can build it for real. Probably.
Maxim
04 — School & self-taught

Education.

  • Kingwood Park High School

    2025 — Present
    Freshman · Class of 2029

    Humble ISD. Computer Science track and a couple AP classes. Trying to make my schedule mostly things I'd be doing anyway.

  • Self-taught web development

    2024 — Present
    Independent

    HTML, CSS, JavaScript, then React and Next.js. Mostly YouTube, docs, and pair-programming with Claude and Cursor.

  • Creekwood Middle School

    2021 — 2025
    8th grade

    Where I started actually shipping projects instead of just sketching ideas.

  • Minecraft, since age 7

    2018 — Present
    Lifetime course in patience and redstone

    Honestly the best engineering school I've ever been to. Logic gates, pipelines, and project management — all in one block game.

05 — What I'm good at (or working on)

Skills & stack.

Building.

01

Real things, virtual things, and the line between them gets thinner every year.

  • Minecraft redstone & farmsComfortable
  • Server admin & pluginsLearning
  • 3D builds & blueprintsComfortable
  • Hardware tinkeringCurious

Code.

02

What I reach for first. Everything I know I learned by shipping.

  • HTML, CSS, JavaScriptComfortable
  • React + Next.jsLearning
  • TypeScriptLearning
  • PythonJust started

AI.

03

I don't just use it — I build with it. Casa Maria is my proof.

  • Claude & ChatGPTDaily
  • Cursor pair-programmingDaily
  • Prompting & evalsLearning
  • Embeddings & RAGCurious

Games.

04

Where competitive instincts meet creative problem solving.

  • Minecraft (Java)Most days
  • Call of Duty: WarzoneSquad nights
  • Movement & aim trainingSteady
  • Clip editingLearning
06 — People who shaped how I think

Inspiration.

  • 01
    Mumbo Jumbo
    Showed me that overengineering is a feature, not a bug.
    Redstone engineer · YouTube
    2020
  • 02
    Grian
    Pacing, storytelling, and a build style I keep stealing from.
    Builder · YouTube · Hermitcraft
    2020
  • 03
    Theo (t3.gg)
    How I figured out what to actually use to ship Casa Maria.
    Web developer · YouTube
    2025
  • 04
    Fireship
    100-second videos that secretly do most of the teaching.
    Code explainer · YouTube
    2024
  • 05
    Marques Brownlee
    Production quality I aim for in my own clips, eventually.
    Tech reviewer · YouTube
    2022
  • 06
    Linus Tech Tips
    Hardware · YouTube
    2023
  • 07
    Andrej Karpathy
    His 'build a GPT from scratch' video changed how I think about all of this.
    AI researcher · talks & lectures
    2026
  • 08
    My mom
    Discipline, taste, and showing up early. I'm trying.
    Bakes bread · runs Casa Maria
    Day one
07 — Where I'm headed

Goals.

  • Ship Casa Maria v2 with the AI menu helper

    Active
    Order pickup, daily 'what's baking', and an assistant that answers menu questions in English and Spanish.

  • Launch a small Minecraft SMP for friends

    Active
    Whitelist, plugins, a Discord, and a website that pulls live server stats.

  • Get good enough at Python to build something I can't yet

    Active
    Probably a Discord bot first, then a small AI tool.

  • Post a COD movement clip people actually share

    Soon
    I have 12 drafts. None of them are it. One of them will be.

  • Build my own keyboard from scratch

    Soon
    Soldering, custom firmware, the whole thing. I have the parts list.

  • Train a tiny language model end-to-end

    Someday
    Karpathy's nanoGPT walkthrough is the goal. Even if it's bad, I want to ship it.

  • Internship or apprenticeship at a real software team

    Someday
    Before I graduate. I want to learn how grown-ups actually ship.

  • Make Casa Maria the best small-bakery site on the internet

    Someday
    Not the flashiest. The best. Loads instantly, helpful, kind.