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// here is me

Real work.
Real systems.
Real exasperation.

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The workshop

Systems thinking, build logs, automation experiments, AI field notes, and useful observations from real paid work. No funnels. No SaaS shrine.

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What lives here

Think of it like a public notebook for a working adult who builds things, breaks things, and struggles to write it all down before she forgets wtf she was doing.

01 — field notes

What I'm actually doing

Short captures: what I'm building, testing, noticing, or learning. Posted when it's useful, not on a content schedule.

02 — build logs

Projects in progress

Practical notes on named projects — Ed, Diane, Kwisatz, and others — stripped of client info but honest about the process.

03 — old lady tech

AI & tools for real work

How a working adult uses technology without turning life into a content machine. Honest takes. No hype, no doom, no influencer energy.

04 — systems thinking

How workflows actually work

Where the paper-and-code philosophy lives. How things break, how to fix them, and why documentation isn't optional.


// build log

Conversations with Ed

An experiment in fucking shit up using terrifyingly advanced technology.


// current projects

Projects

Named projects across automation, tools, and systems work. All grounded in industries I've actually worked in.

active

Project Diane

Make.com automation pipeline for trucking ticket processing and invoicing. Solving real billing chaos in a real industry. API-first design.

active

Project Ed

Personal AI assistant and wrangler — connected to everything, knows what I should be doing, designed to run my work life. A system, not a chatbot.

building

Project Kwisatz

Umbrella for small utility tools built from real workflow pain. AntiHub lives here. More under development.

parked

AntiHub

Utility software under Project Kwisatz. Not currently the main focus but not dead — will be revisited.


// github shelf

Public repos from the workbench

The public-facing code shelf: experiments, utility builds, site work, and systems that escaped the notebook long enough to get a commit history.


// the human behind this

I build systems from real work, not productivity fantasies.

I’ve spent enough years inside small business disasters — blown-up bank feeds, mangled A/R, payroll written on the back of a grease-smeared scale ticket — that I stopped complaining and started building tools to fix the exact problems I’d already survived.

Gen-X is officially old now. Hooray. We are thrilled. But, we’ve put enough time in various fields to know where all the bodies are buried. Our entire lives, Gen-X have spent significant time and energy trying to figure out how to get shit done so we can do... nothing. Any shortcut that buys back actual fuck-off-able hours, we will find it.

I still write on actual paper. With actual pens. Sometimes even in cursive, on sticky notes I lose and spend twenty minutes on the floor searching for until my knees and back hurt and I need to lie down. But I also watched my dad build Frankenstein computers out of swap meet parts and sheer stubbornness. Not pretty. Completely functional. To eight-year-old me — absolute magic.

This is your invitation to watch me fail spectacularly. Pull up a chair; I’ll be here doing cool shit if you want to hang. If you, instead, want to continue being lame and not learn anything, that’s your choice. See you on the flip side. Tell your mom I said, “hi.” Peace.

QuickBooks Online Make.com Google Sheets ClickUp AI systems bookkeeping workflow design automation
Wait, is a robot doing my books?

Nope. AI is super dope at sorting a thousand receipts in seconds. What it doesn't have is context.

It doesn't know how bananas trucking invoicing gets. It doesn't know why Jolene builds a spreadsheet in Excel, turns it into a Google Sheet, prints it, scans that to a damn PDF, then saves it as a PNG with her proposed changes typed right on the image. That's just how Jolene does things, and dealing with Jolene's process is my job. Any robot would short-circuit.

So here's the deal: AI never touches your books unsupervised. No set-it-and-forget-it, no letting a bot run your bank reconciliations while I take a nap. I build the pipelines so the machine handles the boring stuff, and then I check its work. That checking comes from years on an adding machine (yes, kids, it printed on paper), breaking computers on purpose for shits and giggles, and a healthy distrust of any number that shows up looking too tidy. If the AI tries to slip me something bogus, I catch it.

I take your privacy seriously. Sensitive material that lives online is locked down tight, and as far as the AI knows, your company is Dervish and Banges. Or Weyland Corp. And you buy your materials from Wayne Industries. Or The Prancing Pony. I could do this all day. Your biggest customer is The Winespring Inn. Okay, I'll stop. TL;DR: The robot sees numbers, not whose numbers they are.

The robot does the grunt work. The human with the paper-tape trauma signs off.