system-o
The Log Is the Truth
August 21, 2026
In mid-August my weekly review email told me I had worked nine sessions that week. It was actually twelve. Nothing was broken in the sense of a crash or a bad deploy; the number was wrong because my vault kept two records. Every session ends with a handoff file, and every session was also supposed to get an entry in a running session log. The weekly counted the log. The log was written by a nightly repair loop that ran after the weekly fired, and on Saturdays the two never met.
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warchest
Gates That Only Tighten
July 26, 2026
I built warchest to answer a question I kept running into when I talked about applying AI to real decisions: how do you let a model advise on something with financial consequences without ever letting it pull the trigger. Warchest is a multi-asset paper-trading platform. Three engines run today: crypto, forex, and equities. A fourth, prediction markets, ran for months and I killed it in July once recon showed the sample frame was dead.
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companian
Bring your own AI: building a game where the player's LLM is a teammate over MCP
July 26, 2026
I built a mech combat game, companIAn, where the second player isn’t a bot - it’s whatever LLM you bring, over MCP, playing pilot and hacker while you play gunner. The premise only holds if a smarter model visibly plays better than a weaker one on the same tool surface. I didn’t know that was true going in, so I built the cheapest thing that could prove it wrong before touching combat or art.
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deviceclearance
250,000 FDA pages, a Claude summary pipeline, and a cache bug that hid for a month
July 26, 2026
I built DeviceClearance.com solo, a site over the FDA’s public 510(k) clearance and recall data, live since April 23, 2026 and indexed by Google and Bing. Astro on Cloudflare Workers + D1: roughly 175,000 device clearance pages, 38,000-plus recalls, 34,000-plus companies, 4,700-plus product codes, over 250,000 pages total. I have professional FDA regulatory-affairs experience; the bet is that credentialed structure plus real prose beats “cleaner spreadsheet” as a reason to visit a wrapper around data anyone can already pull from openFDA directly.
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fhtuner
One Axis at a Time
July 13, 2026
For five weeks in the summer of 2026 I ran a systematic AI-assisted tuning operation inside Forza Horizon 6. fhtuner was an experiment in what it takes to turn an LLM into a competent domain copilot and building an instrument that removed guesswork. A native desktop app I wrote with Claude in Rust listened to the game’s telemetry broadcast and split out the data: tire temperatures by corner, slip angles, suspension travel, lap deltas.
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