Skip to content
All writing

Tagged

#AI

6 posts

Technical · 8 min

MoonLander Enhanced: Teaching an AI to Land on the Moon (and Other Things I Didn't Plan to Build)

A browser remake of the 1979 Atari Lunar Lander that turned into real orbital physics, historic Apollo missions, and an AI Theater where you watch a neural net learn to land in real time. Built with AI, for fun.

Read
Technical · 16 min

Pro-AI, Eyes Open: What It Actually Does to Us, and How to Use It Well

I use AI every day and I'm genuinely optimistic about it. This is the honest version — what the research really says about AI and our brains, the environment, and the quiet ways it flatters us — and how I use it so it sharpens my thinking instead of replacing it.

Read
Technical · 6 min

The Generalist's Edge: Doing IT Work in the Age of AI

I'm a generalist, not a specialist — and for the first time that feels like an advantage instead of an apology. How AI changed what one IT person can actually do in a day.

Read
Technical · 9 min

A Lazy Sunday: Rebuilding My Site with AI and Leaving Wix Behind

How I went from a templated Wix site to an owned, fast, markdown-native stack — thought to design to a live cutover — in about a day, with AI as the pair programmer and me making the calls.

Read
Technical · 25 min

How I Tried to Break My Own Encrypted Journaling App — Ten Times

An authorized, ten-round penetration test of MoodHaven Journal — 65+ targets, 41 confirmed-and-fixed vulnerabilities, and the bespoke tooling it took to prove the encryption actually holds.

Read
Technical · 18 min

Seven Months of Vibe Coding: How I Built a Privacy-First Journal App with an AI Pair Programmer

Building MoodHaven Journal from scratch as a non-developer — zero-knowledge encryption, a Wear OS companion, peer sync, and what it actually takes to learn while you ship.

Read