Working log
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.
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...
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...
It took 27 emails and roughly five weeks to go from a first document review to the word accepted.
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...
Happy New Year 2026
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...
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...
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...
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.