01 / Operate
AI-assisted infrastructure
AI as an operations partner for a self-hosted platform, from routine maintenance to commissioning a refurbished server. Runbooks, recovery plans, and human approval keep changes accountable.
Selected work
AI, applied to
real systems.
I use AI inside the work: to operate infrastructure, make complex source material useful, and build software. These projects show the context, evidence, and judgment behind the result.
01—02 Systems in practice
Operate / Retrieve
02 / Retrieve
CL650 manual retrieval
A local retrieval system that helps Claude answer questions from Challenger 650 simulator manuals without relying on memory.
Security / signal funnel Read-only agents
Every event 30 days
Rule matches 90 days
Worth a page Rare
Tuning: proposal → human approval
03 / Detect
Watch the systems,
including the agents.
Security monitoring for my home lab, from the router to the AI agents that help run it.
Ten hosts and network devices, custom detections, read-only access for agents, and every tuning change reviewed by me before it goes live.
Home lab SIEM Research / provider registerJuly 2026
Evidence reviewed76provider profiles
Identity · infrastructure
Privacy · reputation
Assessment register One cell / one provider
35 GO 27 Conditional GO 8 Conditional NO-GO 6 NO-GO
04 / Investigate
Before the first prompt,
follow the data.
A review of 76 inference providers: who runs the model, where the data travels, and what the policies actually say.
Structured research, explicit decision criteria, and a searchable provider register. Published as a historical assessment from July 2026.
OpenRouter due diligence05—06 From source to something useful
Design / Learn
05 / Design
Building this site
A long-running personal site replatformed, redesigned, tested, and released through a deliberately human-led AI workflow.
06 / Learn
Canadian citizenship study
Official Canadian citizenship material, turned into a focused Anki study deck—with source checks, a prioritized core, and visible reminders when facts can change.
07 Other experiments
Useful, on a smaller scale
Software / Collections
Private collection software
A catalogue that understands the difference between a title, an edition, and the copy on a shelf. Bibliographic lookup and two ways to browse a Stephen King collection.
Hardware / Protocol exploration
An air purifier, without the app.
A command-line tool to read air-quality data and control a Winix purifier, built by tracing how the device communicates. It still uses the manufacturer’s cloud.
winixctl status