Latest thoughts
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Do not over-engineer: keeping AI coding tools on task
Why AI coding assistants tend to over-build, what it costs in tokens and deleted code, and the prompts that keep them delivering the change you actually asked for.
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A Central Monitoring Stack for a Multi-Application SaaS Ecosystem
How a central monitoring platform combines application instrumentation, infrastructure metrics, and availability checks across multiple SaaS applications.
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Beyond Copy-Paste: Giving AI Instructions a Shared Standard
The prompts, instructions, and policies that shape AI-assisted work have become operational assets, and OAI2 is an attempt to package, validate, and share them the way we already do with code.
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Building a Raspberry Pi Voice Assistant With AI
A practical technical overview of building an Alexa-like AI voice assistant using a Raspberry Pi, microphone, camera, local speech output, and cloud AI services.
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Building my own blog engine in an afternoon
Why I stopped fighting an off-the-shelf static site generator and wrote the ~43 kB engine that runs ikoonman.io instead.
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Compass: Deciding Where AI Actually Fits in How You Build Software
Compass is a decision-support tool that helps software teams assess their delivery practices and platform foundations, then turn that context into a deliberate, explainable AI adoption plan.
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Extending Teamcentric Forge from Live Documents to Dashboards
A high-level technical overview of how Teamcentric Forge can evolve from document generation into live dashboards while keeping Markdown as the source of truth.
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NeuroDesk: How Little Input Does a Computer Actually Need?
An early-stage research project exploring whether a few silent, deliberate signals — attention, subtle gestures, and experimental neuro-input — are enough to direct and supervise a capable AI agent.
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PACE: Giving AI-Assisted Development a Memory of the Project
Why AI coding assistants produce plausible code that doesn't fit the system, and how a persistent, project-scoped context layer might change that.
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Studiocaster: A Labour of Love, Built Around the Listener
How a personal project to tame live listener messages grew into a working tool that charity broadcasters now rely on.