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Atlas puts two years of my AI chats on one map, and the export is the part I want gone
Atlas turns two years of ChatGPT and Claude conversations into a map of topics, decisions and the links between them. It is now live at /atlas with privacy mode on by default and a public read-only...
Free Claude credits for solo builders go through Amazon
Anthropic's startup program now takes anyone, but its credits still want an institutional investor, and its credits only spend on its own API. For one person with no funding, the most reliable free...
Three trips into Hugging Face, and what came back
The site had never touched the open half of machine learning. Over three shipped expeditions that changed: live field notes, an in-browser search engine, and a benchmark tie against the paid incumb...
I built a podcast production line that pauses exactly once
A voice memo goes in; an edited, captioned, rule-checked episode waits at a human gate. A build log on the new episode production line: an AI editor hired onto a one-episode contract, a free ffmpeg...
GraphMy gets a real home
GraphMy (drop in a PDF, get back an interactive knowledge graph) had been sitting in the Lab with no real home. It's a tool, a utility even, so it moved to its rightful shelf in the Utilities hub. ...
The Workflow Designer is running: a build tour
What the in-house Workflow Designer looks like now that it is shipped: the kanban console, the compose step, the human gate, and what runs after you approve.
I replaced n8n with one I could actually trust
I had a fifteen-step-per-chapter novel pipeline and a pile of agent loops, and the obvious answer was n8n. I built my own visual orchestrator instead. Not because n8n is weak, but because the part ...
Invisible infrastructure: the kickoff
The most important layer of this site is the one you never see, seeders, fallbacks, drift gates, the ops harness. A kickoff note for a deliberate push to make the invisible plumbing impossible to g...
The nudge that keeps deals warm
Freelance work dies from silence, not bad proposals. A small workflow over the engagements pipeline that reads the timestamps nobody's watching and pushes the one follow-up about to fall through a ...
Your AI demo worked. That was the easy part.
Most AI automation works in the demo and dies before it runs every day. Here is the gap where it dies, three of the systems that run this site (you can operate them yourself), and how the parts tha...