Recent Blog Posts

Insights on AI development, infrastructure architecture, and lessons learned from building teams and products in the startup ecosystem.

You Still Have to Put the Effort In: My Standards for AI-Assisted Blogging
Software
Your Codebase Isn't the Hard Part of Onboarding
Product
Use a Graph Database Like It's SQLite
Software
Every Box I Haven't Logged Into Is Running a Month-Old Config
Infrastructure
My Quantitative Trading Bot Runs the Lights Now
Infrastructure
Creating a Media Bot That Doesn't Fill the Disk
Infrastructure
How I Actually Work With Coding Agents
Software
Don't Ask Your Agent to Fix the Bug. Ask It to Write a Test for the Bug.
Software
Tripwires: Tests That Catch Your Agent Making the Same Mistake Again
Software
If You Stopped Using PRs in the Age of AI, Your PRs Aren't High-Tech Enough
Software
The CRM Was Already There: A Sales-Ops Bot That Reads Gmail Labels
Infrastructure
A Pull Request Is a Coordination Tool
Software
AI Is a Tracer Bullet Minigun
Software
My Bot Was Inventing Sales Leads, So I Wrote Evals That Ban Confidence
Software
My Hermes Bot Prompts Are Nix Modules, and the Build Fails If I Break One
Infrastructure
Nix on a Kobo: The Cookbook
Software
Recap: Stop Managing Tools, Express Outcomes — The Vibe-Ops Talk at Upper Bound 2026
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Recap: Use AI to Think Better, Not to Think Less — The Memory Paradox Talk at Upper Bound 2026
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Recap: I Watched Someone Take Over a Cooling System From a Laptop — IT/OT Security at Upper Bound 2026
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Recap: Most AI Teams Fail by Design — Debra Somani's 'Building Your AI Team' at Upper Bound 2026
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Recap: Let the Model Pick the Next Experiment — Aryan Deshwal's Bayesian Optimization Talk at Upper Bound 2026
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Recap: Two Decision Matrices That Cut Through AI Adoption Chaos — Peter Bishop at Upper Bound 2026
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Recap: Jason Sun's Accountability Envelope — Governance Infrastructure for AI Agents at Upper Bound 2026
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Make Your AI Quiz You. That's the Refactor for Cognitive Debt.
Product
I Put Nix on My E-Reader Because I Can't Help It
Product
I Get It — You Could Have Done That. Did You?
Product
Melt Your GPU on Evals, Not Vibes
Product
When 'Just Use MCP' Is the Right Call — and When It Isn't
Product
Your OpenClaw Doesn't Need Your API Keys. Run a Proxy Instead.
Product
Secure OpenClaw on NixOS: The Bot Proxy Pattern
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AI Coding Tools Are Better at Nix Than Me, and That's Actually Fine
Product
Your Agent Doesn't Need curl. And If It Tries, You Should Know.
Product
Prompt Engineer Local Models With Your Coding Agent and Ollama
Product
AI Engineering Is GANs All the Way Down
Product
If You're Going to Burn the Tokens, Leave Something to Show For It
Product
Ask Your OpenClaw to Escape Before You Give It Your Keys
Product
The Fintech Tarpit: Why Your Payment Processor Should Be Your First Prototype
Product
Stop Using CLAUDE.md — Put Your Standards Right in the Code
Software
Your Brain Has 47 Tabs Open. AI Can Sort Them.
Product
I Built a Voice Chatbot and Latency Ruined Everything (Until It Didn't)
Software
How I Vibe Code on My Phone (Yes, Really)
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Let AI Find the Bugs You'd Never Test For (Fuzzing with Zero Effort)
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Make AI Do the Boring Stuff (Tests and Docs Are Free Now)
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Steal Commands from Your AI Coding Agent (Your Ego Will Survive)
Software
How I Automated My Life With n8n and Local AI
Infrastructure
People Are Replaceable. Relationships Aren't.
Product
How I Built a Self-Healing Home Server That Actually Works
Infrastructure
Just Because You Have a Blank Cheque Doesn't Mean You Have Unlimited Money
Software
Vibe Code Even Faster with Claude Code and Tmux
Software
Stop Scrolling Through Stale Job Postings: The Fresh Jobs Hack
Software
I Love DevOps Tools, But They're Just Different Types of Glue: A Guide to Choosing the Right Adhesive for Your Infrastructure
Infrastructure
How to Get Perfect AI Coding Commits Every Time
Software
I Built an AI Tool That Fixes the Networking Problem Every ADHD Job Seeker Has
Product
The Copy Without an Original: How AI Helps Me Blog Without Losing My Voice
Software
Building Personal Finance Autopilot in 2 Hours at Vibe Code Vendredi
Product
AI Writes Better Prompts Than You Do
Software
Self-Hosted Analytics Made Easy: Setting up Metabase on NixOS with Tailscale
Infrastructure
Designing a PostgreSQL Analytics Warehouse with NixOS: Production-Ready Architecture
Infrastructure
I Built NixOS von Neumann Probes: Self-Replicating Infrastructure That Spawns More Infrastructure
Infrastructure
Local AI Made Simple: NixOS Ollama Flake for Private LLM Hosting
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Linux Music Production for People Who Hate Linux Audio Setup
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The Power of Orthogonal Design in the Age of AI
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