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Public reports from things I build.

Technical notes from live projects: enough architecture and tradeoffs to be useful, without leaking secrets, customer data, or the parts that should stay inside the system.

technical build report

Manifest-Driven AI Website Generation: Building Elook's Multi-Page Site Engine

How I am building Elook around SiteManifestV2: a structured contract for multi-page AI websites with routing, SEO metadata, targeted chat edits, deterministic rendering, Workers runtime boundaries, and testable package layers.

product writeup

CleverPopup: a cross-tool second brain for developers

A hosted second-brain SaaS I built: it ingests notes, PDFs, URLs, images, and audio into a vector-backed knowledge graph, answers with cited retrieval-augmented chat, and exposes an MCP + REST API so every AI assistant you use — Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, terminal — shares one memory. For developers tired of re-explaining their codebase to every new session.

product writeup

BackupCron: a self-hosted backup manager for MySQL & files

A self-hosted backup manager I built and run: scheduled MySQL dumps and file archives from local + remote SSH servers, Wasabi cloud offload, retention, email alerts, and a live dashboard. For teams that want backup control without per-GB SaaS pricing.

public build report

Building ProWebLook's edge IP API

How I moved ProWebLook IP lookups closer to users with Cloudflare edge infrastructure, hashed API-key sync, and async quota reconciliation.