Things I've noticed while building things.
26 October 2026
Letting AI read my house was easy. The first time it wanted to press play on a real speaker, I noticed I wanted to be asked.
Read more →22 October 2026
I gave my home dashboard a feature to tell me what its data meant. Then I stopped trusting it, and started wondering how much other software that applies to.
Read more →16 October 2026
The UK publishes a remarkable amount of free data. Join it up and it tells you things nobody publishes, including, it turns out, a fair bit about you.
Read more →9 October 2026
Experience taught me to keep integration to a minimum. Then AI made the leg work cheap, and I started wondering what the rule had really been protecting.
Read more →27 August 2026 · Updated 9 October 2026
This site, the private hub behind it, and how a personal website that started out simple grew into the thing our household runs on.
Read more →3 September 2026
A traditional recogniser kept inventing notes in my sheet music, so I let Claude read the scores instead. It was good, but not trust-it-blindly good, and designing around that gap is where AI stopped being a chatbot for me.
Read more →27 August 2026
A catalogue for everything I own, physical and digital, so I stop buying things twice.
Read more →27 August 2026
A task manager for a household, where sharing one task never means giving away the rest.
Read more →27 August 2026
A game I'm building from scratch, mostly to find out how the things I've only ever drawn on diagrams actually work.
Read more →27 August 2026
A content platform for small organisations: cheaper than the big bundles, and not dependent on the one person who understands it.
Read more →27 August 2026
A small local tool that turns Microsoft 365 licence data into a number you can take into a renewal meeting.
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