July 3, 2026 · 5 min read
You cannot out-staff a security team when you are the whole team. But the failures that actually end a solo operation are a short, known list, and each has a cheap defense you set up once. Here is the catastrophic floor I stood up in an…
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June 26, 2026 · 13 min read
A year of building and operating a small fleet of finance and content products almost entirely through an AI coding agent. What worked, what was hard, the honest failures (including a flagship signal that measured nothing and an edge tha…
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June 17, 2026 · 10 min read
Every system that fuses signals into one consequential number has a fault line: the data you trust enough to composite into a grade versus the data you only trust enough to watch. How I drew that boundary in my personal finance engine, a…
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May 31, 2026 · 6 min read
How I replaced manual CSV exports with a live Garmin data feed for my AI marathon coach: a scheduled unofficial-API poller, resilient session handling, and the design calls that keep training and recovery data fresh and trustworthy.
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May 19, 2026 · 5 min read
A personal portfolio reviewer where the scoring is deterministic and the AI only narrates. The architecture that held up after I had to rewrite the model it was built on, and why that boundary is the whole point.
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April 13, 2026 · 6 min read
How I built a personal AI coaching system for marathon training, layering deterministic guardrails over an LLM narrative engine, ingesting Garmin FIT files, and designing for my own injury history.
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