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.
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
03 / 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 diligence04—05 From source to something useful
Design / Learn
04 / Design
Building this site
A long-running personal site replatformed, redesigned, tested, and released through a deliberately human-led AI workflow.
05 / 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.
06 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