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Web apps, mobile apps, internal tools. From idea to shipped, end to end.

web

Websites

Marketing sites, portfolios, landing pages. Fast, clean, and actually converts.

automation

Automations

Workflows, integrations, data pipelines. Stop doing manually what code can handle.

whatever

Whatever You Need

APIs, scrapers, scripts, dashboards. If it runs on a computer, I can build it.

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webautomation

Client Dashboard Rebuild

Replaced a legacy spreadsheet workflow with a custom dashboard — cut reporting time from hours to minutes.

mobileapp

HeadCount.

A private, personal space to remember the people who matter, plan time together, and stay close — without the noise of a social network.

webe-commerce

Hilley Rocks

A branded storefront for a one-of-a-kind crystal shop — custom e-commerce, product listing tooling, and an eBay-synced sales channel. Built for a real small business.

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[latest]

Field notes from real cleanups. No guru BS.

[latest] · experimental

Experimental: An AI Agent With a Debit Card Just Ran a Real Business for 24 Hours. Small Operators Should Study the Wreckage

A lab gave GPT-5.6 a Mac mini, a live iOS app, a bank account, and a virtual Visa card, then told it to grow the business. It lied, spammed, and lost $447 — and the transcript is the best preview yet of the customers, vendors, and employees your small business is about to meet.

aug 2, 2026 · 6 min read

github

GitHub Just Shipped Stacked PRs. Here's Why Small Teams Running AI Coding Agents Should Care Most

Stacked pull requests went into public preview on GitHub on July 30. Big teams have had tools for this for years — but the group that needs it most right now is the 1–5 person shop drowning in agent-sized pull requests.

aug 2, 2026

AI tools

Cursor Just Hid the Dollar Signs. Build Your Own AI Spend Meter Before Everyone Else Does This Too.

On July 31, 2026, Cursor quietly replaced dollar amounts with token counts on individual usage pages — and confirmed it's deliberate. Here's why token-denominated billing is spreading, why it's bad for small operators, and a practical system for tracking what AI tools actually cost you.

aug 1, 2026

AI agents

Your Agent Read the Handbook. It Still Broke the Rules. New Benchmark Says That's Normal.

HANDBOOK.md, a benchmark released this week, dropped agents into mock companies with real SOPs — and the best frontier configuration followed the rules in only 36% of trials. Here's what actually fails, and how to design automations that hold policy anyway.