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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...
Everything the model can't do alone
A two-minute explainer claims the engineering leverage in AI has moved off the model and onto the harness, and that if you build agents, you're a harness engineer. I went to write a skeptical note ...
Behind the bot that runs my house
A behind-the-scenes build log of the private Telegram bot that drives my site from the pocket: one bot and a plugin router, an allowlist that is the entire security model, the features it runs toda...