how it gets built
What gets built, what breaks, what it costs. The figures are the real ones, including the attempts that failed.
2026-11-09
A month of emails that said nothing.
Before a new address can write to a stranger, it has to get known. So I put my home server to work sending quiet emails, a few a day, for a month.
2026-10-13
An automated shop is not a shop without care.
A customer pays, and the system produces the piece on its own. The first time I explained it that way, it sounded like nobody was checking anything anymore. That's not how it works — here's why.
2026-09-29
Forty minutes to write nothing.
My agent launcher broke twice in one day. Instead of fixing it, I replaced it — and found out how much weight it was carrying without me knowing.
2026-09-14
The missing director.
I rebuilt the reel pipeline three times. The first two looked fake. On the third I understood what was missing: not the little guy. The camera.
2026-08-31
My voice speaks on its own.
I taught a machine to speak in my voice. Now it reads what I write, and it sounds like me. Even when I don't open my mouth.
2026-08-27
My private network.
The server is at home. I'm on the other side of the world. Between us there's a thread nobody sees and nobody can touch. It's called Tailscale.
2026-07-28
The brain lives at home.
The models I think with run on my own server, not on someone else's cloud. It's called ollama. It's the piece that keeps my thoughts at home.
2026-07-21
I don't work alone. I work with axis.
I don't have a team. But I'm not alone either. I have axis: an agent that runs on my own server and does the work I'd do myself, just faster.
2026-07-07
I always start from a voice note.
I don't write articles. I talk. A machine transcribes, I edit. That's my editor.
2026-06-16
The backup I hope I never have to use.
I have a server at home. If it breaks, everything disappears. So I did the most boring thing there is.
2026-06-01
The browser you never see
Playwright opens a browser, does what you tell it, closes it. Never shows up on screen. But the PDFs it produces travel the world.
2026-05-22
The tool that casts the spell. It's called mosh.
There's a terminal program that shows you letters before you've sent them. If you didn't know how it works, you'd call it magic.
2026-05-16
The real king here isn't me. It's MYBRO.
I have a server at home. It runs things. I run a company. It works.
2026-05-12
I burned an HP laptop at 12. Then I started an AI company.
My mom got computer insurance because she knew I'd break them. She was right.