Let the Builder Drive the Demo, Let the PM Run the Room
For client walkthroughs, the person who built the product should drive the screens so the client sees the real work and not a secondhand retelling, while the...
Working log
Systems, tools, and the process of figuring things out.
A running record of infrastructure builds, consulting work, and AI experiments — documented as I go. Some of it is useful. Some of it is just me thinking out loud.
Recent notes
AI Took the Paperwork So I Could Be in the Room
A month into running a twelve-month system build on site, I’ve handed meeting transcription, minutes, reports and reminders to AI that only drafts, and I che...
Shopping List, Free. Robot Rejection, Fair. Homework Questions, Priceless.
AI does my admin at work. At home, a family assistant called Hermes runs our shopping list, and soon, I hope, the homework questions too.
Two Months in Bandung: The Apartment I Picked for One Reason
TL;DR: I picked a studio at Gateway Pasteur because it was ten minutes from the client office. The distance was the only part of the deal that worked. The fi...
Project Management, Reimagined: How AI Became My Most Reliable Teammate
A project manager explains how AI now handles the repetitive admin work, like meeting notes, status updates, scope breakdowns and plan stress-testing, which ...
From Receipt to Ledger: Building a Mobile Expense Tracker on Infrastructure I Already Had
TL;DR: I built a React Native app that photographs a receipt, has AI split it into line items, and syncs each one straight into the same GnuCash ledger runni...
The Accidental Platform: How One Free Server Grew Into a Private Infrastructure Hub
TL;DR: I built a private infrastructure hub on an OCI Always Free VM — not by planning it, but by repeatedly asking “can I solve this with what I already hav...
27 Emails, One Contract, and the Clause I’m Still Watching
It took 27 emails and roughly five weeks to go from a first document review to the word accepted.
When ChatGPT Cost Me Two Weeks and a Holiday in Traffic
TL;DR: ChatGPT gave me confidently wrong architectural advice about L2TP networking. I doubted it. It insisted. I gave in. That cost me two weeks and multipl...
2026: Working With AI, Not Letting AI Work For Me
Happy New Year 2026
The AI Architect: Wrestling ChatGPT into Building a Robust Telegram-to-Mikrotik Workflow
Discover how to build a Telegram based remote command system for your Mikrotik router with ChatGPT. This guide shares critical lessons on guiding AI to avoid...
The “Context Capsule” That Crumbled – A Week Vibe Coding Our Website
Another week in the lab, pushing the boundaries of what a self-writing website for POC can be. This time, the battle wasn’t with the code itself, but with th...
Ways of Working with Chatgpt 5 (Chak)
after a lot of forgetting constant, variable name and loss of suggestion & some improvement idea. Today, half day is dedicated to create a product backlo...
FlowformLab AI Ghostwriter — Build Log
Project Log: n8n Ghost Writer Automation with Local LLM (Ollama)
Taming Decap CMS With AI — A Non-Coder’s Journey
I didn’t set out to become a developer. I wanted a simple personal lab — a place to document real projects, thinking, and learning in public.