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.

EmailCasa MariaGitHubYouTube
01 — What I'm building

Recent projects.

Live · v2 in progress

Casa Maria.

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

A site for my mom's friend'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
Honestly? Making something out of nothing just hits different. Doesn't matter if it's a redstone contraption, a website, or finally landing the cast I've been trying all day — I like watching the thing actually work.
From my notes app, 2026
note
Freshman at Kingwood Park HS. Rebuilding Casa Maria v2, messing with Python on the side, and trying to convince my dad to take me to the lake more.
Right now
link
Hermitcraft S10, episode 47 — Grian's super-smelter is actually unreal.
Open tab
list
Ship something every weekend. Actually read the docs. Ask for help before you rage-quit. Camping in COD is not a personality.
Stuff I tell myself
quote
A 1:1 scale Kingwood Park in Minecraft. I'm like 20% joking.
Dream build
note
RTX 3060, 27-inch 1440p monitor, brown-switch keyboard my mom says is too loud, and a tackle box that badly needs reorganizing.
My setup
quote
Nothing biting for an hour, then everything at once. Patience is a cheat code.
Best kind of day
quote
If you can build it in Minecraft, you can probably build it for real. Same with the big fish — stay patient, don't panic, don't snap the line.
What I figured out
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.