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Oct 18, 2026AIRead

The Voice Is the Joke

I rebuilt Knora's English cast, deleted the style axis, and found two audio defects every test said were fine. The update is live — and the lesson is not really about comedy.

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Sep 24, 2026AIRead

I Built an App With Almost No UI. That Was the Point.

The best review of my comedy app came from a table with four friends and a round of drinks — and my first version failed it. So I removed the joke format, then I removed the interface. Here is what a one-gesture app forces, why a 75-second ceiling is a table-length constraint, and the uncomfortable part for anyone whose day job is attention metrics.

Sep 14, 2026AIRead

I Gave My 9-Agent Marketing Platform Away as Open Source

STRAŦUM v1 is now MIT-licensed and public. Nine agents, two Postgres schemas, ten locales — and a table that shipped with Row Level Security switched off, reachable by anyone holding the key that loads in the browser. Here is what I gave away, what I would not build the same way again, and why you are welcome to fork it and build your own.

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#Build in Public archive.

The Voice Is the Joke

I Built an App With Almost No UI. That Was the Point.

I Gave My 9-Agent Marketing Platform Away as Open Source

Earlier entries

My AI Bill Went From $200/Month to $45. I Shipped More, Not Less.

I Evaluated 40 AI Podcasts Across 7 Languages. Six Pipeline Fixes Later, Here's What Improved.

How I Write System Prompts That Actually Get Enforced (After My AI Hosts Said 'Trời ơi' 13 Times)

The One Question That Killed an Entire Curriculum Architecture in a Week

Offline Mode for My AI App Didn't Need AI. It Needed Boring.

Native Isn't a Skin: Rebuilding DIALØGUE's iOS App

I Rebuilt My Site With Two AI Models: Opus for Design, Codex for Execution

6 Months, 3 Game Projects, 0 Shipped

I Rolled Back 2,724 Lines After One AI Audio Change Broke Production

#Build in Public archive.

The Voice Is the Joke

I Built an App With Almost No UI. That Was the Point.

I Gave My 9-Agent Marketing Platform Away as Open Source

Earlier entries

My AI Bill Went From $200/Month to $45. I Shipped More, Not Less.

I Evaluated 40 AI Podcasts Across 7 Languages. Six Pipeline Fixes Later, Here's What Improved.

How I Write System Prompts That Actually Get Enforced (After My AI Hosts Said 'Trời ơi' 13 Times)

The One Question That Killed an Entire Curriculum Architecture in a Week

Offline Mode for My AI App Didn't Need AI. It Needed Boring.

Native Isn't a Skin: Rebuilding DIALØGUE's iOS App

I Rebuilt My Site With Two AI Models: Opus for Design, Codex for Execution

6 Months, 3 Game Projects, 0 Shipped

I Rolled Back 2,724 Lines After One AI Audio Change Broke Production

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