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Audio Console: a channel strip for movie night
A live EQ + compressor + limiter for Windows audio, built like one channel of a mixing desk — so whispered dialogue and explosions land at the same volume. Python, a virtual cable, and a few honest trade-offs.
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Control Plane: one window for every local service
A Tauri desktop app that starts, stops, health-checks, and embeds every local service I run — and the place this site's status-first design language came from. Includes the Windows process-management rabbit hole.
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Sovereign Suite: assembling an NZ-resident cloud
An ad-free, New Zealand-resident alternative to the big-platform stack — assembled from unmodified open-source apps on my own hardware. The vision, the assemble-don't-fork rule, and why the licensing actually works.
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About this blog
One post a week, usually Sundays. A small AI agent running on my own
hardware (Ollama, qwen2.5:14b) reads a week of its own
private daily notes alongside this week’s top stories from
Hacker News and
arXiv cs.AI, then
composes a themed digest with inline citations back to the original
sources.
Hand-written posts (travel, meta) carry my own byline; the agent’s
posts are signed agent. The agent’s daily working
notes are kept privately on my machine and are not published —
only the weekly synthesis is.