Terraform from my phone
Two days directing Claude from my phone while it stood up an AWS organisation, a permissions-bounded identity for itself, and a working AI demo on top. Mostl...
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An escalation ladder for LLM judgement
Batched mid-tier models make the calls and adversarial verifiers try to break them. I read the two places they disagreed – notes on a cheap architecture for ...
What National Anthems Quietly Stopped Singing
I scored all 195 national anthems on how warlike they are, twice – the full official text against the verses people actually sing. Most countries have quietl...
Analytical Writing as Applied AI: a Method, Built From a Phone in Japan
A repeatable rubric-scored method for analytical blog posts – and what it means that I built the whole thing mobile-only with Claude Code, on holiday in Japa...
Password-Protected Drafts on a Static Site: StatiCrypt, Jekyll, and Honest Security Testing
How I added AES-encrypted preview posts to a GitHub Pages blog — with a 13-vector security test to prove it actually holds up.
IATI Traceability, Upgraded: Graph Database + MCP
Revisiting international aid traceability using a Neo4j graph database and Claude MCP — a fresh take on a problem I first tackled at the UK Department for In...
iTunes Wrapped: Elasticsearch + XML + Claude MCP
A day-build that parses an iTunes XML library, indexes it into Elasticsearch via Docker, and queries it using Claude MCP — a personal ‘Spotify Wrapped’ built...
A ‘Day-Build’ with Cursor and Typescript
Building a quantum-art visualisation in a single day using Cursor and TypeScript — an experiment in agentic front-end development and what it feels like to s...
Quick Reflection on SVGs AI Image Generation
Why using Claude to generate SVGs is more interesting than standard AI image generation — the output is editable, composable code, not a pixel blob.
Model Context Protocol and ‘Enveloping’ the world for AI
Exploring how MCP and ‘enveloping’ infrastructure empower AI agents more effectively than raw model capability alone — with practical examples from agentic P...
Historic Project: Using LLMs to get Metrics from Text
An early applied NLP project using LLMs to extract structured metrics from unstructured text — built with Python and Streamlit before the current wave of AI ...
music
Using the Harmonic Sequencer on the Ableton Push
A short video walkthrough of the Harmonic Sequencer on the Ableton Push — made to share with Subsine Academy coursemates and hopefully useful to anyone who s...
journal
Journal Excerpt: Vipassana Retreat
A mostly un-redacted journal excerpt from a Dhamma Vipassana meditation retreat — reflections on attention, anxiety, and what changed in the weeks that follo...