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Writing.

Notes from the work — quietly opinionated, mostly practical — and a few from off the clock.

Technical

18 May 2026

Belvedere: An AI Assistant for Email and Admin

Running an AI assistant to handle email, drafts, and administrative tasks via OpenClaw and Telegram.

2 May 2026

Vibe coding has a ceiling, and it’s not the model

A morning of VPS hardening, what experience actually buys, and why the gap between vibe coding and engineering isn’t closing on its own.

19 April 2026

Running your own AI agents on a VPS

A weekend with OpenClaw, a trading bot, and a personal assistant. Two AI agents on a £20-a-month VPS — what works, what doesn’t, what I’d do differently.

Personal

10 July 2026

The Other One

A confession, three weeks in the making, about late nights, a locked phone, and exactly who I've been sneaking off to talk to.

9 May 2026

Rebuilding this site from the middle of the Irish Sea

An afternoon on the ferry, an iPhone, Starlink, and an AI agent doing all the typing. A site rebuilt from scratch in two and a half hours, by Telegram.

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