#AI

A cron job on my machine wakes up at 2am every night. It does not check email. It does not run backups. It dreams. I built this thing because I wanted to see what an AI would come up with if I gave it the night shift. Not a task list. Not a prompt…

Most of my tools start the same way. A small problem that keeps showing up, and a fix that's too useful to leave as a bookmark. For a while, each tool got its own little site. It works, but it scatters. One tool here, one tool there, separate…

A few weeks after I launched Handmade Checker, I kept coming back to the same thought. I had built a tool that tells you when a listing looks like AI. But the sellers behind real shops have the opposite problem. They make beautiful things. And…

For the last few months, this blog has been my workshop. I've written about running Gemma 4 locally, building tools that keep my data on my own hardware, and experimenting with everything from family dashboards to Chrome extensions. Each post was a…

It started with a specific frustration. I was shopping on Etsy for a gift. Something handmade, something with character. After scrolling through pages of listings, I started noticing a pattern. A lot of the listings look like they were made using…

There I was, looking through my feed on Bluesky and I found a few posts I wanted to reply to but didn't know the best way to reply... I wanted to engage with the user, but didn't have the right words to say. I wanted to reply with something that not…