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Static sites, local tooling, data files, deployment paths, and the practical web machinery behind public-facing work.

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Latest: July 18, 2026
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OpenAI Build Week: What Would You Ask Sam?

applied-aiweb-developmentProject: samnavsemantic-searchai-workflowsstart-here 4 min read

OpenAI Build Week: What Would You Ask Sam?

OpenAI emailed me about Build Week with four days left, which meant choosing between several questionable Codex projects and figuring out how to make a meaningful addition to SamNav—an application that was already built, deployed, and working. The answer became “What would you ask Sam?”: a question-first way to navigate Sam Altman’s public writing without pretending to impersonate him. The new system uses SamNav’s existing taxonomy, semantic dossiers, and GPT-5.6 to interpret nuanced questions and plot a grounded route through things he has actually published.

The House Always Eats

culture-and-critiqueweb-developmentProject: sandwich-betssocial-softwarenonsensesystems-designanti-extraction 9 min read

The House Always Eats

Sandwich Bets starts with a stupid premise and follows it to its logical conclusion: what if the only safe wager left is lunch? Sandwich Bets becomes a napkin ledger turned into software: a way to remember the terms, preserve the obligation, and cap the damage at lunch. From there, the essay widens into a critique of gambling culture and the casino internet, where platforms manufacture suckers by turning human instincts for stakes, prediction, rivalry, and being right in public into habit and revenue. Sandwich Bets keeps the ritual but refuses the extraction: no cash, no casino, no wallet, one-sandwich max. The deeper turn is that it is less a betting app than a gifting system in disguise. Being wrong never felt so right.

Navigation for the End Times

web-developmentProject: samnavweb-designclassificationanti-extractionnonsensestart-here 6 min read

Navigation for the End Times

SamNav is a tiny independent index for Sam Altman’s blog, built because the posts are worth reading but the navigation is almost comically minimal. It adds search, topics, reading paths, related posts, and an admittedly dry Navigation Severity Score without republishing the original writing. It’s part joke, part web repair: a small Dockerized map for a corner of the internet that needed one.

A Machine for Cross-Examining My Greed

applied-aiweb-developmentProject: signal-deskresponsible-webai-workflowsdata-architecturenonsensestart-here 6 min read

A Machine for Cross-Examining My Greed

Signal Desk is a local AI-powered investment research desk I built precisely because I don’t know enough about investing to trust my own instincts. It turns scattered curiosity about AI companies, infrastructure, robotics, sensors, and market hype into a slower research ritual: filings, thesis cards, source-linked briefs, recommendation categories, discovery scans, and ghost trades that test ideas without risking real money. It does not give financial advice or place trades. Instead, it acts as a contradiction engine, helping me separate evidence from narrative before I do something financially...

Rebuilding My Portfolio With AI, Static HTML, and Stubborn Taste

web-developmentapplied-aiProject: portfolio-rebuildweb-designai-workflowscraftlocal-first 10 min read

Rebuilding My Portfolio With AI, Static HTML, and Stubborn Taste

The original version of my portfolio was built in 2021 from downloaded themes, hand-edited HTML, layered CSS overrides, and an unreasonable number of animated GIFs. The visual identity still felt right, but the underlying structure had become difficult to maintain and extend. This rebuild became an experiment in preservation through reconstruction: using AI-assisted workflows, static publishing, structured content, local admin tooling, and a lot of small human judgments to modernize the system underneath the site without sanding off the parts that still felt personal.