· 6 min read
Build the Tools Before Adding the AI
Why I am designing DKBot as a deterministic capability and operation platform first, with conversational AI added later as one way to invoke tools rather than as the foundation of the system.
Notes on Building Software
Technical write-ups on the tools and systems I build.
· 7 min read
Why I Use Simplified Technical English in Software Projects
How I use ASD-STE100 as a baseline for technical prose, agent instructions, and project terminology without pretending that ordinary software documentation is strict aerospace STE.
· 8 min read
Why I'm Building LUDWISE
LUDWISE started as a PC game price-comparison idea. The harder part turned out to be designing a catalogue and product I could trust before there was anything worth scaling.
· 5 min read
The Most Useful Part of a README Is What the Project Refuses to Do
Feature lists describe ambition. Non-goals describe software you can actually build, test, and keep understandable.
· 5 min read
The Parent Killed Its Child: Programming Terminology Read Literally
Developers spend all day saying things that would alarm anyone outside the room. A short tour of where the vocabulary actually came from, and why every bit of it is reasonable in context.
· 5 min read
What AI-Assisted Development Actually Looks Like, Day to Day
Building and maintaining this site with Claude Code: why the CI pipeline is the real guardrail, and why a feature working correctly is not the same as it being the right call.
· 4 min read
Proving a Specification Is Implemented, Automatically
Turning requirements traceability into something an automated report can answer, by tagging TDD unit tests with the issue number of the specification they verify.
· 3 min read
Avoiding Unnecessary Hashing: A Tiered Comparison Strategy for Directory Sync
Why comparing two directories efficiently means avoiding SHA-256 hashing whenever possible, and how a three-tier check (size, timestamp, hash) gets you both speed and correctness.
· 3 min read
Building Tangolab: Why I Finally Started a Homelab
Turning an old office PC into a self-hosted development lab for learning Linux, Docker, networking, backups, and infrastructure engineering.