Projects
Software, tools, websites, and systems I am building around ownership, structure, practical use, and real problems.
What I Am Building
Bonumark Stream
A microblog and short-form publishing system for people who want their thoughts, updates, photos, and notes on a site they control instead of trapped inside social networks.
GitHub
I build self-hosted publishing tools, WordPress plugins, themes, and open-source modernization projects focused on ownership and practical use.
Project Notes
Builder Receipt: Bonumark’s Theme Architecture
Bonumark Stream did not need more themes. It needed a theme system flexible enough to support genuinely different designs without letting presentation take control of the application. Building…
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Builder Receipt: Reworking Bonumark Stream
Bonumark Stream gained a lot of capability this week, but the real work was deciding where each capability belonged. I tightened the boundaries between publishing, management, themes, and…
Builder Receipt: Rebuilding Cypher’s Core
Cypher kept giving me the wrong schedule even when the right information was already stored. After enough failures, the problem was no longer whether it needed another patch.…
Builder Receipt: Better Context and Control
An AI assistant does not become trustworthy because it knows more facts. It becomes trustworthy when it knows which facts matter, where they came from, when to use…
Why ChatGPT Keeps Getting Better for Me
Every new ChatGPT release seems to create two completely different experiences. Some people see a system getting worse, while I keep seeing more of my ideas become real,…
Builder Receipt: Making Cypher More Reliable
A private assistant does not earn trust by sounding smart. It earns trust by using the right context, performing the right action, and proving what actually happened. This…
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