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.
Outbound Custom SMTP over Raw Edge Sockets: Ditching Nodemailer on Cloudflare Workers
How we cracked custom outbound SMTP on Cloudflare Workers without Nodemailer or external relays: building an RFC 5321 streaming client over raw TCP sockets, handling in-flight STARTTLS upgrades, base64 AUTH LOGIN handshakes, and RFC 5321 dot-stuffing at the edge.
product writeupPayloadAPI: a verified API marketplace and developer gateway
Why I built PayloadAPI: a curated marketplace where developers evaluate real API payloads and specs before integrating, backed by a 9-check verification pipeline, hard spending caps, scoped test/live keys, and encrypted request capture.
technical build reportManifest-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 writeupCleverPopup: 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 writeupBackupCron: 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 reportBuilding 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.