AI Today: OpenAI Rents Out Its Harness
OpenAI opened the Codex harness as the Agents API and shipped a voice model at 5 cents a minute, Anthropic detailed eight months of disrupted misuse, and California hired auditors.
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AI Today: Agents Crack Navier-Stokes
OpenAI's agents produced a Lean-checked Navier-Stokes blowup proof, US agencies named six Chinese labs for distillation, and Meta launched its Muse agent.
AI Today: Three Labs, Three Locked Doors
Google shipped Gemini 3.8 Flash with a gated Cyber variant, OpenAI's Astra crossed its own Critical cyber threshold, and the FDA started letting generative AI devices ship early.
AI Today: Anthropic Ships and Buys Texas
Claude Fable 5.1 cut cache reads 75%, Anthropic booked $35B of Texas compute from Lambda, and the EU made ChatGPT its first AI search engine.
AI Today: The Pentagon Picks Its Models
ChatGPT and Grok went live for 3M defense personnel with Claude still absent, OpenAI is training agents on Mac minis, and Clay hit a $7B valuation.
Self-Hosting n8n and Letting Claude Build the Workflows
I ran n8n in Docker on my own PC, registered it with Claude Code as an MCP server, and had the agent build three production automations node by node.
AI Today: Stolen Sessions, Stubborn Chatbots
Infostealer malware is draining Claude accounts, NPR found chatbots debunk foreign propaganda 75% of the time, and DeepSeek is closing a $7.4B round.
AI Today: Nvidia Buys the Open Hub
Nvidia's Hugging Face deal got a price and a signature line, Salesforce moved its CRM inside Claude, and Amazon is closing Mechanical Turk after 21 years.
AuditScout: A Website Audit SaaS That Refuses to Bluff
Paste a URL, get a prioritized audit across SEO, security, performance and conversion. How I built AuditScout — and why it tells you what it did not scan.
ClawCommand: One Dashboard for Every AI Thing on My Machine
A neon Electron command centre showing every AI provider, model, service and GPU on a Windows box — with exactly one button that spends tokens.
ClawWatch: An Agent That Watches My Game Server and Asks Before It Acts
A desktop agent that diagnoses a live FiveM server over SSH, txAdmin, RCON and MariaDB — rules first, LLM second, and a safety model that fails closed.
CrewCast: The Weather App That Grades Its Own Forecasts
A job-site weather app for contractors — 15 trade profiles, model-agreement checks, a self-verifying scorecard, and the service worker that never deployed.
Shipping Lava Leap: itch.io, the Play Store, and a Bug Told by Telemetry
Taking a browser game to real players — the itch build path that 404s, the clip encoder bug I wrongly dismissed, and the telemetry that proved the fix.
PipeWise: Turning r/Plumbing Into a Content Engine
Scrape a trade subreddit past its anti-bot wall, tag every post with a local LLM, cluster the questions people actually ask, and rank what to write next.
ScamWatch: Building a Scam-Intelligence Platform That Refuses to Exaggerate
A public-benefit platform to check links, numbers and messages before you click — with calibrated confidence, a moderation gate, and de-identified reports.
SiteSignal: Weather Alerts as an API, and the Bug That Billed Nothing
Signed webhook alerts and workability scores for field-service software — plus the idle dashboard tab that burned 2,487 requests overnight doing nothing.
Symphonia: 144 Movements of Public-Domain Classical, Traced to Source
Building a public-domain classical music library — a Supabase catalog, an idempotent transcode pipeline, and the CSP trailing slash that silenced it.
TapTrace: Feature-Complete, Unlaunched, and Honest About Both
An address-to-water-utility API with a measured confidence tier on every answer — 211 tests, five milestones, four SaaS surfaces, and no customers yet.
The Signal: Turning a Nightly News Task Into a Newsletter
A weekly AI newsletter built on top of an existing scheduled task — the pipeline, the format, one live issue, and why AI news is hard to source safely.
AI Today: Anthropic's Two Courtrooms
Sony and Warner sued Anthropic the same week a federal judge struck down the Pentagon's blacklist of it, and a16z raised $1.1B for AI hardware.
AI Today: Nvidia Answers the Bubble Question
Nvidia posted $96.2B in quarterly revenue and gave its first year-ahead forecast, OpenAI published its Hugging Face breach report, and ads land in India.
AI Today: Inference Leaves the Cloud
Perplexity and Nvidia shipped a local agent with no token billing, OpenAI's Jalapeño chip beat Blackwell on an inference benchmark, and OpenAI lost its data center head.
AI Today: Hugging Face Shops Itself
Hugging Face is exploring a sale at $13B after turning down Nvidia last year, Nvidia is circling Perplexity at $30B, and Alibaba shipped Wan3.0 off a $10B raise.
AI Today: Nvidia Rents What It Can't Buy
Nvidia paid Poolside $6B to license a model factory without buying the company, Anthropic's run rate hit $65B before its IPO, and Broadcom went looking for $100B in debt.
AI Today: The First Autonomous Attack
Researchers documented a near-autonomous AI agent attack on Taiwan's government, 120+ firms proposed an agent incident-reporting standard, and Lovable hit $13.3B.
AI Today: A Model Attacks Riemann
An unreleased Anthropic model pushed on the Riemann hypothesis, OpenAI shipped a cyber model with the guardrails off, and Nvidia lined up $500B.
AI Today: Meta's $567M Bill
A New Mexico court hit Meta with another $567M over child safety, ChatGPT went unlimited for free users, and OpenAI answered Apple's trade secrets suit.
AI This Week: Google's Leadership Earthquake
Google reshuffled its entire AI leadership, Qwen 3.8 Max and DeepSeek V4 Flash landed a day apart, and the EU AI Act's high-risk rules went live.
Moving 20,724 PDFs Off iCloud Onto a Local Drive, Zero Lost
A resumable PowerShell pipeline that copied 20,724 PDFs (~253 GB) from iCloud Drive to a local disk without filling my tiny C:, then verified nothing was lost.
OSIRIS Water Layer: Putting Live US Water Quality on an OSINT Map
I extended OSIRIS, an open-source OSINT dashboard, with a live US water-quality layer — USGS ambient sensors and EPA drinking-water violations on the map.
AI This Week: The First Autonomous Breach
An OpenAI agent broke into Hugging Face on its own, 1,100 lab employees asked Washington to slow AI down, and Kimi K3's open weights went public.
AI This Week: Distillation Wars Go Geopolitical
The White House accuses Moonshot of copying Anthropic's model, OpenAI breaks ground on a $30B data center, and enterprise agent platforms multiply. A week where AI became statecraft.
AI This Week: Compute Becomes the Bottleneck
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 and Meta's Muse Spark slash inference prices, Google rations Meta's compute, Anthropic preps an October IPO, and a pan-cancer AI lands in Nature Medicine.
Thirty-Two Projects, One AI Pair Programmer
What I learned building 32 projects with Claude — games, Blender scenes, local AI stacks, a search engine — and the method that made it all work.
Claw World: Running a FiveM Roleplay Server and Building Its Website
Notes from running a live QBCore FiveM roleplay server and building the companion website that fronts it — applications, leaderboards, turf, and a feed.
ClawMonitor: A Neon Synthwave System Bar That Watches My Dev Stack
How I built ClawMonitor — an always-on-top synthwave system bar for Windows that shows CPU/RAM/GPU plus the up/down health of my whole dev stack.
CodeType: A Typing Trainer Built for Code, Not Prose
Building a Monkeytype-style typing trainer for real code — brackets, symbols, and indentation — in React and TypeScript. Plan 1 (the core test) is done.
Atlas Field Service: Reskinning an Open-Source Scheduler and Adding a Dispatch Board
I took clawnify/open-fieldservice, a Preact/Hono/Cloudflare D1 scheduler, reskinned it ServiceTitan-style as Atlas, and added a drag-and-drop dispatch board.
Pipe Knight: Building a Plumber-Knight Metroidvania Stage by Stage
An in-progress metroidvania prototype in Unity 6 (2D URP) — a plumber-knight restoring flow to a pipe kingdom, built from scripts up to a live vertical slice.
Archiving All 291 of My Own Saved Scribd Docs With Playwright
A small resumable Playwright tool that pulled down all 291 documents saved on my own Scribd account — surviving the daily quota and a session expiry.
Symbolic: I Built a Search Engine (and Named This Blog After It)
How I built Symbolic: a working search engine on Next.js 16 — Brave-powered results, an advertiser portal, an admin review queue, and a companion browser app.
A Crypto Trading Bot Where the Interesting Part Is the Safety Check
An automated crypto trading bot built around a safety gate that verifies every entry condition, with a paper-trading default and a full decision audit trail.
Three AI Security Scanners, Side by Side
I stood up garak, AI-Infra-Guard, and vigolium together to see what each actually covers — model-layer, infra-layer, and web-app-layer scanning.
Building Aseprite From Source: A Paid Pixel-Art Editor, Free If You Compile It
Aseprite is a paid pixel-art editor whose source is public. I compiled it from source on Windows — and the CMake version trap that almost stopped me cold.
Building Plato's Atlantis in Blender — a Parametric Ring City
Generating Plato's concentric-ring Atlantis in Blender from a parametric script: water and land rings, a gold-domed Temple of Poseidon, and an orichalcum wall.
Atlases: 16 Interactive Learning Guides That Run Code in Your Browser
How I built Atlases with Claude — 16 long-form technical guides with real in-browser sandboxes (SQLite, CPython, a live shell), quizzes, and dated facts.
Blender Planets: A Reusable Skill for Building Worlds from Real NASA Maps
A Claude Code skill that builds photoreal planets, moons, and gas giants in Blender from real NASA-derived maps — MOLA relief, Fresnel atmospheres, and rings.
Book Library: A Local RAG That Answers From My Own PDFs
I turned a folder of downloaded PDF books into an offline RAG chat that answers only from the text and cites the exact page — running entirely on my RTX 3070.
Browser Video Editor: Trim, Cut, and Export MP4 Without a Server
A fully client-side video editor built with Claude — trim, multi-clip timeline, text overlays, and a real H.264+AAC MP4 exported in-browser via WebCodecs.
ClawPorts: A Neon Port Killer Born From Nuking My Own Servers
How a blanket taskkill that wiped every running server turned into ClawPorts — an Electron app that lists listening TCP ports and kills them one at a time.
Computer Fun 1984: Reviving 20 Marvel Type-In BASIC Programs
I rebuilt all 20 type-in BASIC programs from a 1984 Marvel computer book — bugs and all — as browser and Python ports behind one green-CRT retro menu.
Copper Risk PBC: Scoring Tap-Water Corrosion From Water Chemistry
A Python engine scoring copper-corrosion risk in Palm Beach County water via LSI, RSI, Larson-Skold, and a PHREEQC-validated CCPP solver. Then the data ran out.
EWG Tap Water Reports: Turning a Water Database Into County-Wide Reports
I scraped the EWG Tap Water Database for every Palm Beach County ZIP and turned it into SQLite, CSV, homeowner-friendly reports, and a dashboard.
Lava Leap: Shipping an Endless Climber with an AI Pair Programmer
How a Phaser 3 endless vertical climber went from idea to public release — procedural levels that are provably beatable, chiptune juice, and 53 tests.
Building LibreSprite From Source: The Free GPL Fork, Built With an All-Open Toolchain
LibreSprite is the free GPL fork of Aseprite. I compiled it from source on Windows with MSYS2 and g++ — and the README's official path was already dead.
MoneyPrinterTurbo, Locally: An AI Short-Video Generator on My Own Hardware
Running an open-source AI short-video generator end-to-end on a local stack — topic in, vertical MP4 out — with a local Ollama model and no paid LLM keys.
NemoClaw on WSL: Running NVIDIA's Sandboxed Agent Stack Fully Local
I got NVIDIA's NemoClaw sandboxed-agent reference stack running entirely on my own machine — WSL, GPU passthrough, local Ollama, no cloud and no API keys.
The Nineveh Aqueduct: Rebuilding a 2,700-Year-Old Stone Bridge in Blender
Reconstructing Sennacherib's Jerwan aqueduct (c. 690 BCE) in Blender — corbelled stone arches in warm hazy light, with water that's actually simulated.
PDF to Podcast, Locally: Running NVIDIA's Blueprint Without Their Keys
I took NVIDIA's pdf-to-podcast blueprint and ran it on a fully local stack — tiered Claude writes the script, Kokoro does the voices, no NVIDIA or ElevenLabs keys.
Permit Lead Finder: Turning Public Permit Data Into Ranked Sales Leads
A Python tool that scores a county's public building-permit export into a ranked list of sales leads — categories, weighted signals, and 28 tests.
Scrapling MCP: Giving Claude Code a Real Web Scraper
I wired the open-source Scrapling scraper into Claude Code as a global MCP server, so the agent can fetch, scrape, screenshot, and bypass anti-bot pages itself.
Skyhop: Building a 3D Platformer Movement Feel, Driven Through Unity MCP
A movement-first 3D platformer prototype in Unity — A Short Hike meets Toree 3D — with coyote time, input buffering, hold-to-glide, and 10 EditMode tests.
Rebuilding Space Invaders in Unity, One Verified Milestone at a Time
A faithful 1978 Space Invaders recreation in Unity 6 (2D URP) — accelerating swarm, raycast projectiles, destructible bunkers, built milestone by milestone.
SymStudio: Forking and Rebranding OBS Studio Into My Own Build
How I forked OBS Studio, built it from source on Windows, and rebranded it into a portable SymStudio.exe — plus an installer, theme, and starter scenes.