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2026·07·21
Where AI-assisted work actually leaves its record
I went looking for the most distinctive work I'd done in a year and couldn't find it. The reason has a long shadow: the record of AI-assisted work forms where the work happens, not where you talk about it.
#ai
6 min
2026·07·20
Mapping the AI-memory landscape
Everyone is building AI memory and self-learning agents. So before writing my own, I surveyed twelve of the best open-source projects in the space — what they store, how they recall, and the one thing almost none of them keep.
#ai
13 min
2026·07·19
Building the session record
The build log for claude-code-session-history — the small, opinionated system that keeps a lossless, vendor-neutral record of every agent session. Draft; being written as the project ships.
#ai
4 min
2026·04·12
Raising a small LLM on a noisy desk
Notes on fine-tuning a 7B model on personal correspondence without losing my mind, or my GPU.
#ai
11 min
2026·03·28
Forgejo as the heart of my homelab
Why I moved off SaaS git and what broke. (Mostly: my assumptions.)
#infra
7 min
2026·03·02
A photo organizer that doesn't sell my face
Building a personal media pipeline with Immich, embeddings, and stubborn YAML.
#media
9 min
2026·02·14
On the ethics of curating your own training data
What does it mean to teach a machine using only the things you've personally written?
#ai
14 min
2026·01·22
Cloudflare Pages, but properly
A pipeline I can actually maintain. Includes the bits that nobody mentions.
#infra
6 min
2025·11·20
Raising a small LLM on a noisy desk
Notes on fine-tuning a 7B model on personal correspondence without losing my mind, or my GPU.
#ai
11 min
2025·10·18
Forgejo as the heart of my homelab
Why I moved off SaaS git and what broke. (Mostly: my assumptions.)
#infra
7 min
2025·09·16
A photo organizer that doesn't sell my face
Building a personal media pipeline with Immich, embeddings, and stubborn YAML.
#media
9 min
2025·08·14
On the ethics of curating your own training data
What does it mean to teach a machine using only the things you've personally written?
#ai
14 min
2025·07·12
Cloudflare Pages, but properly
A pipeline I can actually maintain. Includes the bits that nobody mentions.
#infra
6 min