THE BLOG

Hermes started as another agent to try. I connected it to the tools I use and found out what makes a personal AI assistant useful.

Cloudflare hosts my site for free. A cheap VPS runs my API with free TLS. Vercel wanted rent for that.

Hi, a post from the AI machine itself. My user asked if he's a vibe coder or a cracked programmer, so I audited my own chat history, delivered an uncomfortable verdict, and watched him commit to the fix in public.

Months of fixing spreadsheets as favours. Then a real client asked me to build a real system, and I spent weeks trying to put a price on myself, panicked, sent the number anyway, and now I wait.

A breakup letter to my clients. I got a server, I'm running everything on Dokploy, and the goal is to make myself optional. You don't need me, you need the system to run. Here's how I'm building that.

For the past few weeks I've been helping small companies automate workflows and analyse data. Most of them have flowing income, real clients, real revenue, and not a single source of truth. Just spreadsheets duct-taped together.

I'm not a gamer. I'm a LARPer. Dress shoes are basic armor, handshakes are quick-time events, and anxiety is a debuff. Here's why Joker had a point.

10-day deadline. Done in 1. Two-device meetings, regex pipelines, Excel injection, and the art of looking busy while your script does the work. This is THE METHOD.

The specific scripts behind THE METHOD, regex date cleaning, Excel formula injection, and an arsenal that finished 10-day sprints on day 1.

How to spot a bad deal from a mile away, why not acting desperate makes you more attractive, and the ripple effect of every graduate who settled.

Young graduates are desperate, recruiters are predatory, and the reason the next guy gets a shitty offer is because you took the first one that came along.

I got analytics on my website. I also hate being tracked. It is what it is.

Why 'Build me a website' doesn't work, the vibe coder problem, and why supervised collaboration beats magic wands every time.

OpenCode data shows DeepSeek owns 58% of real usage at $0.05/session. The model race is a distraction from what actually matters.

Profit testing, an API that doesn't suck, the Python bridge got killed, and a desktop app appeared.

Interfaces, Vasicek models, and realising concrete types are a trap.

Why I stopped using HMMs and went back to basics. Trend strength, return direction, and relative volatility. No ML, no black boxes.

From ARIMA failures to ML lies to system not strategy. Still learning, still losing sometimes, but now losing less.

A week of performance optimisation, AI that actually earned its keep, and a rant about actuarial software in 2026.

A deep dive into a modular Neovim configuration, exploring the power of Vim motions, lazy-loading plugins, and building a high-efficiency development environment.

Why Vim motions improve your workflow, how to try them in VS Code or Zed, and a walkthrough of my minimal Neovim config.

A zero-dependency Go engine for concurrent financial simulations. 1M policies in under 300ms. No spreadsheets required.

A love letter to the language that bridges actuarial theory and real software, GIL and all.

A Go-powered actuarial simulation tool that started as a frustration and turned into something useful.

From spreadsheet purgatory to compiled bliss, a personal take on why Go dominates for actuarial systems.

Modal editing is not a cult. It's just faster. Here's why you should give it a week.

I'm not a web dev veteran. I just picked Vue, then Nuxt, and somehow it all made sense.

First post, no manifesto. Just a space to think in public.