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From the terminal.

12 June 2026

Where 15 Years of Bass Meets 15 Years of Code

I record bass as Box of Rules and build software as Deviant Ops. This is the first time the two properly collided: profiling a vintage Neve console with pink noise, modelling the signal chain in DSP, and shipping a free plugin that turns one bass DI into a full studio stack.

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10 June 2026

Teaching Haiku to Point: How a Cheap AI Model Matched a Whole Card Catalogue

We had thousands of trading card listings and a folder of original artworks, and no record of which was which. Per-image AI calls were slow and pricey. Then we put everything in one big picture, gave every item a name, and the cheapest Claude model started behaving like an expensive one.

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27 April 2026

The Uninvited Tenant

A cryptominer moved into my server. Then a worse story about a $189,000 AWS bill. Two lessons about diligence, paper trails, and why past-you should be kind to future-you.

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25 April 2026

I Built a Bridge Between an AI and a Filing Cabinet

I needed a database for music gear. I installed Snipe-IT. Then I built an MCP server so Claude could actually think across it. Then strangers started fixing my bugs. This is that story.

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