Cloud, or Your Own?
Renting a frontier model from a big provider is the fast, obvious path, and most of the time it is the right one. But some work should never lea…
Nov 9, 2026
Sovereign Tech
Decentralization, sovereign identity, and self-hosting. Tools you own and keys you hold.
14 articles
Why We're on Hugging Face
Enabling frontier-class models on an unmodified open source engine isn't an obvious measurement of success if it isn't published.
Oct 28, 2026
Take Your Printer Back
An Epson app kept nagging me to upgrade its installer before it would keep talking to my printer, and buried a simple low-ink reminder under a p…
Oct 20, 2026
Why I Wrote My Own Nostr Libraries
When I started building NostrKey I wanted the code underneath it to be clean, so instead of pulling in someone else's dependency I wrote the pie…
Aug 30, 2026
The Tests Were Green. The Code Was Broken.
Every suite passed. Every build was green. And the code underneath was quietly broken, 83 verified bugs. How an adversarial AI swarm found what…
Jul 20, 2026
The Agentic Workflow Gets Personal - My 'PostVibe Coding' Era
Builting a NostrKey suite (Chrome ext, Android app, site + more) in just 5 days/one weekend using agentic AI workflows. Not magic: 10k hours of…
Feb 25, 2026
Securing Open-Source Nostr Libraries with Claude Code
After building a 7-package Nostr ecosystem, I hit the wall of open-source maintenance. This is how I used Claude Code to resolve a year of secur…
Feb 20, 2026
From Search Results to Conversational Discovery : The Great Crossing
Search is dying. Conversation is eating it. But LLMs hallucinate because there's no "web of trust" for AI agents, just scraped, stale data. Hist…
Jan 20, 2026
Why 8GB of VRAM is Exactly Enough to Own Your Future : The Sovereign AI Manifesto
The Sovereign AI Manifesto charts the dawn of personal AI ownership through the RTX 5060 LP, an 8GB VRAM card that enables individuals to run lo…
Dec 28, 2025
The Sovereign Interface: Why I’m Back to Building
A journey from AI-ethics & music to Bitcoin consulting. Now launching a new service to bridge sovereign Bitcoin stacks with Canadian compliance…
Dec 12, 2025
Nostr-Auth-Middleware: Enhancing Developer Experience with Comprehensive Documentation
Discover how the COLAB-DOCS pattern transformed our Nostr-Auth-Middleware project, enabling seamless human-AI collaboration while delivering com…
Feb 2, 2025
Energized and Visionary: My 2025 Journey into Decentralized Innovation
The rise of decentralized protocols like Nostr and Bitcoin inspires my 2025 vision for user-driven tools. By building platforms like MaiQR.app a…
Jan 7, 2025
Nostr: a Better Future for Authentication
Introducing Nostr-Auth-Middleware: a plug-and-play solution for adding Nostr authentication to your app. Built with TypeScript, React support, a…
Dec 3, 2024
Bitcoin Insights from a Slime Mold Analogy
The question at the heart of this is... slime mold could be considered conscious. It displays a spectrum of perspectives, ranging from distribut…
Mar 11, 2024