Articles
Notes on product, AI, and the systems I build around them.
Build Logs · Systems & Automation · Product & AI · Pet Projects
I Tried to Automate Blog Translation. The Real Product Was QA.
A practical postmortem on automating Russian and Serbian blog translations, and why the real work became protecting Markdown, footnotes, language rules, and review state instead of chasing a perfect model.
Series · 8 parts
Health Dashboard
An 8-part build log: how a personal Apple Health receiver grew into a methodologically honest dashboard with explicit ineligibility, multi-model design review, and a server that refuses to fabricate numbers.
Build Logs · Systems & Automation · Personal Stack · Pet Projects
Trading a 1.3 GB Bookmark Manager for 17 MB
Memory pressure on my 7.6 GB VPS forced me off Karakeep. The migration to Readeck snowballed into a small Go project (a multi-tenant Telegram bot and an MCP server) that I now plug into Claude.
Product & AI · Systems & Automation · Claude Code
How a Sleeping Terminal Cost Me $1,000 Overnight
A Claude Code post-mortem on background daemons, prompt caching, and infinite agent loops, and how a strict spending limit failed to save my bill.