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Essays on the things I actually build — AI experiments that leak something true about the tools, infrastructure notes for when the defaults stop working, and the occasional Sunday-afternoon project with my daughter. I write to remember what I learned, and because a working demo deserves a paragraph or two of context. No newsletter, no course, no funnel — just the pieces, dated and linked.

  1. ·Infrastructure·11 min

    I Built 11 Trading Bots, Killed 9, and All I Got Was This $13 Loss

    Eleven bots. $95 in starting capital. Nine of them got killed along the way, two limped through, and the whole exercise netted a $13 loss. A postmortem on architecture, slippage, and the specific hubris of assuming edge exists where it does not.

    “More trades means more fee drag, more slippage, and more opportunities to be wrong. The edge, if it exists, needs to be large enough to survive the friction.”
    Read on Medium
  2. ·AI experiments·20 min

    The Algorithmic Gaze: Why I Outsourced My Melancholy to a Server Farm in Northern Virginia

    Kevin Shields spent two years and $500,000 chasing a guitar sound. I generated a shoegaze album in forty-two seconds while eating a microwave burrito. A field report from Post-Effort Shoegaze.

    “It is a machine trying to simulate a human trying to sound like a machine.”
    Read on Medium
  3. ·Infrastructure·10 min

    The Ghost in the Machine: Setting Up a VLESS + Reality VPN for Perfect Stealth

    WireGuard and OpenVPN are cooked the moment DPI sees them. Here is how to stand up VLESS + TCP + Reality + XTLS-Vision so your traffic is indistinguishable from a boring HTTPS visit to a real site.

    “You aren't fighting the wall; you are walking right through it. Digital sovereignty isn't given; it's built.”
    Read on Medium
  4. ·Creative coding·13 min

    Roblox vibe coding

    My 11-year-old wanted floating islands, gravity flips, and a leaderboard to flex on her squad. Instead of a weekend of Luau pain, we shipped it with Google Antigravity — and watched plays climb from zero to hundreds overnight.

    “You just describe the vibe in plain English (or excited kid-speak), and a swarm of AI agents plans, codes, debugs, tests, and polishes it all for you.”
    Read on Medium
  5. ·Meta·8 min

    Generating websites content with AI

    One evening, four directory sites, a small API bill, and an open question: how does Google actually treat hybrid human-and-machine content? A receipt, not a pitch.

    “I was able to create this website in just one evening by utilizing APIs… it's difficult to predict how Google will react to hybrid content.”
    Read on Medium