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Engineering deterministic trust in a time of stochastic parrots

Agents write most of the code in my projects now. I describe a change, an agent works out how to make it, writes it, runs the tests and opens a pull request. This post is a look at how that works for…

Scanoo: QR codes that keep working

We were putting QR codes on printed restaurant menus. Every tool we tried was either bloated, expensive, or held the codes hostage.

BrandTrace: measuring what AI actually says about you

Every GEO tool can draw a visibility chart. That is the easy half, and it is where most of them stop.

profotograaf: a platform for photographers

A working photographer pays for three subscriptions.

GitHub Tamagotchi: a virtual pet for your repos

Most developer tools get built out of necessity. Something breaks, or something is too expensive, or something does not exist yet and you need it to. This one got built because it sounded fun. GitHub…

FunnelBarn: self-hosted analytics that stays on your server

Most analytics tools are fine for the basics. Pageviews, sessions, referrers. You add the script tag, the numbers appear in a dashboard, and that's usually enough.

BugBarn: open-source error tracking you actually own

At some point, every side project grows up. It stops being a script you run locally and starts being something you actually depend on. When that happens, you want to know when it breaks.

Invisible Prompts and the Problem with Blind Trust

I built a little tool the other day. It takes any text you give it and encodes it into invisible Unicode characters: zero-width joiners, variation selectors, that kind of thing. The output looks like…