blog
Building, out loud.
Notes and stories from designing, breaking and shipping the things in my portfolio.
What I've shipped for clients
Six production AI engagements across energy, insurance, medical imaging, SaaS, legal tech and search — the constraint that made each one hard, and what it took to ship.
Jul 31, 2026Making myself legible to machines
I was blocking every AI crawler that could have recommended me. Here is what I found in my own robots.txt, and what I changed.
Jul 15, 2026Owning the whole stack
Why every app at manapple.dev runs on a single box I fully control — one PaaS, one database, one login, my own mail.
Jul 2, 2026warren — an AI analyst that writes investment theses
A multi-agent system that only speaks when it has something to say: a defensible buy/sell thesis, or nothing at all.
Jun 27, 2026gollum — hunting value-for-money at auction
How a very specific quest — buying a necklace without overpaying — turned into an auction tracker that ranks value, not price.
Jun 14, 2026Building faro — my own lighthouse on the web
Why I dropped a blog engine and built my portfolio from scratch with Astro.