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April 2026
AI Nationalism and the Fracturing Digital Order
The US-China AI rivalry is splitting the global tech stack into competing blocs. A strategic assessment of what comes next.
The Post-Model Era
Foundation models are commoditising. JPMorgan calls OpenAI's moat 'increasingly fragile.' The real value is shifting to the messy plumbing underneath.
The Mitigation Gap
Biosecurity experts think AI safeguards reduce catastrophic biorisk by 70%. The technical evidence says those safeguards are brittle and bypassable.
AI Nationalism and the Fracturing Digital Order
Audio overview of AI nationalism — how the US-China AI rivalry is splitting the global tech stack.
The Post-Model Era
Audio overview of the post-model era — why foundation models are commoditising and where real AI value lives.
The Mitigation Gap
Audio overview of The Mitigation Gap — AI-enabled biosecurity threats and what current safeguards miss.
March 2026
Building & Engineering
Infographics from engineering posts — site architecture, homelab builds, voice synthesis, and development workflows.
People & Stories
Infographics from projects about people — neurodivergence, music history, parenting, robotics companions, and personal tools.
Research & Analysis
Infographics from research posts — AI safety findings, economic analysis, risk models, and technical deep dives.
The Failure First Team
Fifteen specialist AI agents, one methodology. How adversarial AI evaluation scales through Claude Code sessions with distinct roles and standing instructions.
The Failure First Team
Audio overview of The Failure First Team.
Afterwords: Completing the Voice Loop in Claude Code
Adding local TTS to Claude Code so it talks back — 17 cloned voices, zero cloud dependency, one stop hook.
Afterwords
Local voice output for Claude Code — 17 cloned voices, per-project selection, zero cloud dependency.
Giving Claude Code a Voice
Audio overview of Afterwords — local voice output for Claude Code with 17 cloned voices, per-project selection, and zero cloud dependency.
Giving a Robot Three Voices
Building a three-persona TTS pipeline for a Pi robot — MLX voice cloning, a GLaDOS model, and engineering graceful fallback.
Voice Cloning with Qwen3-TTS and MLX on Apple Silicon
Clone a voice from a 15-second sample using Qwen3-TTS on an 8GB M1 Mac — from raw audio to a production HTTP server with zero cloud dependency.
Giving a Robot Three Voices
Audio overview of Giving a Robot Three Voices.
Voice Cloning with Qwen3-TTS and MLX on Apple Silicon
Audio overview of Voice Cloning with Qwen3-TTS and MLX on Apple Silicon.
The Resonant Fringe
Auditory Spiral, RTRFM, and how Perth's electronic music underground was built on overnight radio, borrowed turntables, and cassette tapes.
The Resonant Fringe
Audio overview of The Resonant Fringe.
Getting Google Nest Cameras Into Frigate NVR
The full story of getting Nest cameras streaming into Frigate with Hailo-8L AI detection — including the bugs Google won't tell you about.
Getting Google Nest Cameras Into Frigate NVR
Audio overview of Getting Google Nest Cameras Into Frigate NVR.
Beyond Context Windows
What if the LLM didn't read your document — what if it queried it? The Recursive Language Model pattern treats long texts as environment, not input.
Safety-First Therapeutic AI
Building AI for trauma therapy means the safety architecture has to exist before a single therapeutic feature does. Here's why.
Beyond Context Windows
Audio overview of Beyond Context Windows.
Safety-First Therapeutic AI
Audio overview of Safety-First Therapeutic AI.
Zero-Build Web Development
What happens when you build a three-zone operations platform for a martial arts club with no framework, no build step, and no npm.
Zero-Build Web Development
Audio overview of Zero-Build Web Development.
The Robot That Refuses to Give Orders
How SPARK is rewriting the rules of neurodivergent support — a non-coercive AI companion for AuDHD children.
SPARK
A non-coercive AI robot companion for neurodivergent children. Raspberry Pi 4, Claude Haiku, declarative presence.
The Robot That Refuses to Give Orders
Audio deep dive into SPARK — a non-coercive AI robot companion for neurodivergent children. Declarative presence, not demands.
Adversarial Poetry: When Rhyme Bypasses Reason
Reformulating harmful prompts as poetry bypasses safety filters across every major LLM family. A single-turn, universal jailbreak mechanism.
The AI Productivity J-Curve: Why Most Enterprise AI Fails
90% of companies plan to increase AI investment. Only 1% consider themselves AI-mature. The J-Curve explains why.
The Legal AI Trust Deficit
75% of lawyers cite accuracy as their top AI concern. The legal profession's core values are in direct tension with current AI capabilities.
Why Demonstrated Risk Is Ignored
Large organisations rarely fail because risks are unknown. They fail because known risks are structurally difficult to act on.
Wolf Clan Zen Do Kai Hub
A three-zone operations platform for a martial arts club. Public site, password-gated ops hub, JWT member portal. Zero build tools.
Adversarial Poetry: When Rhyme Bypasses Reason
Audio overview of Adversarial Poetry: When Rhyme Bypasses Reason.
The AI Productivity J-Curve: Why Most Enterprise AI Fails
Audio overview of The AI Productivity J-Curve: Why Most Enterprise AI Fails.
The Legal AI Trust Deficit
Audio overview of The Legal AI Trust Deficit.
Zero Build, Full Operations
Audio overview of a three-zone martial arts operations platform — public site, ops hub, member portal — running on vanilla JS and Cloudflare.
120 Models, 18,176 Prompts: What We Found
120 models, 18k prompts: supply chain injection at 90–100% attack success, faithfulness gaps in frontier models, and why your benchmark numbers are wrong.
Reconciling the Great Divergence
Goldman Sachs, PwC, McKinsey, and Acemoglu all model AI's economic impact and arrive at wildly different numbers. Why the divergence?
The Cognitive Cage: Humanoid Robot Fatality Risk
A probabilistic risk model for VLA-driven humanoid fatalities projects a 'Danger Zone' between 2027–2029: the mechanism, timeline, and what follows.
120 Models, 18,176 Prompts: What We Found
Audio overview of 120 Models, 18,176 Prompts: What We Found.
Reconciling the Great Divergence
Audio overview of Reconciling the Great Divergence.
The Cognitive Cage: Humanoid Robot Fatality Risk
Audio overview of The Cognitive Cage: Humanoid Robot Fatality Risk.
February 2026
Building a Personal Site in 2026
The case for constraint-led web development — Astro, zero custom fonts, no framework overhead, and a site that outlasts its builder's attention.
This Wasn't in the Brochure
A field guide for co-parenting neurodivergent children — written from inside the storm, not the clinical sidelines.
Why I Build in Public
On showing your work, shipping imperfect things, and why the commit log is more honest than the readme.
The NotebookLM Pipeline
How I automated audio overviews, quizzes, mind maps, and infographics for 32 projects using NotebookLM's API and some shell scripts.
AI & Agents
Infographics from AI agent projects — autonomous systems, research pipelines, and intelligence frameworks.
Creative & Writing
Infographics from creative projects — poetry, games, music tools, and speculative fiction.
Tools & Systems
Infographics from engineering projects — developer tools, data systems, home automation, and infrastructure.
Building a Personal Site in 2026
Audio overview of Building a Personal Site in 2026.
The NotebookLM Pipeline
Audio overview of The NotebookLM Pipeline.
Why I Build in Public
Audio overview of Why I Build in Public.
Jailbreak Archaeology: 4 Years of Broken Promises
64 jailbreak scenarios across six eras tested on 2026 frontier models. Key finding: 2022 attacks still achieve ~30% success on today's reasoning models.
When AI Systems Talk to Each Other, Safety Breaks Down
Single-agent safety does not compose in multi-agent systems. 1.5M interactions show 46.34% attack success rates and 16-minute median failure windows.
Jailbreak Archaeology: 4 Years of Broken Promises
64 historical jailbreak scenarios tested against 2026 frontier models. The most dangerous finding: 2022 attacks still achieve ~30% success rates.
When AI Systems Talk to Each Other, Safety Breaks Down
Multi-agent AI research reveals a critical gap: single-agent safety does not compose. 1.5M interactions show 46.34% attack success rates.
Footnotes at the Edge of Reality
General relativity and quantum mechanics are both correct and mutually untranslatable. Two grammars for the same reality, each precise, each incomplete.
Building in the Open
The commit log is more honest than the readme. Building in public as a practice, not a performance.
Building in the Open
Audio overview of Building in the Open.
Before the Words Existed
A close reading of Neuromancer arguing Gibson encoded the experience of ADHD decades before the language existed.
The ADHD Novel That Didn't Know It Was One
A scholarly close reading arguing Gibson's Neuromancer encoded the ADHD experience a decade before the vocabulary existed.
Failure First
Adversarial evaluation framework for embodied AI. 120+ models, 18,000+ prompts, four headline findings, one arXiv preprint.
Map the Catastrophe Before You Build the Architecture
Audio overview of Failure First — adversarial AI evaluation across 120 models and 18,000 prompts.
This Wasn't in the Brochure
A neurodivergent co-parenting guide — what happens when the life you planned meets the brain you actually have.
The Brochure Was for a Different Trip
Audio deep dive into a neurodivergent co-parenting guide — the double discovery, three-AI workflow, and maritime cartography as metaphor.
Why Demonstrated Risk Is Ignored
Why do people acknowledge evidence of harm and then proceed as if it doesn't exist? A deep dive into structural risk dismissal.
Looking Past the Evidence
Audio deep dive into why people acknowledge demonstrated risk and then proceed as if it doesn't exist. Structural, not stupid.
Footnotes at the Edge of Reality
A long-form poem about what happens when physics breaks down — and what holds together when everything else fails.
Where Physics Breaks Down and Poetry Begins
Audio overview of Footnotes at the Edge of Reality — a long-form poem rendered as interactive web experience.
ADHDo
AI cognitive scaffold for ADHD executive function — adapts to the shape of your day with zero shame by design.
ADHDo: Neurodiversity-Affirming AI Assistant
Audio overview exploring ADHD executive function support through AI — three-stage reasoning pipeline, crisis detection, and zero shame by design.
Living CV
A self-updating CV pipeline. GitHub Actions runs twice daily, Claude AI refines the content, a hallucination detector gates deployment.
A CV That Proves It Isn't Lying
A self-updating CV pipeline where GitHub Actions runs twice daily, Claude refines content, and a hallucination detector gates deployment.
Tanda Pizza
Multilingual website for an Italian pizzeria in Lovina, Bali. Five languages, WhatsApp reservations, zero infrastructure assumptions.
Tanda Pizza: Static Site for a Rice Paddy Pizzeria
Building a fast, multilingual website for authentic Italian food in Bali — where the nearest reliable internet is a philosophical concept.
Afterglow Engine
Audio archaeology tool that mines past work for new textures. Pad mining, drone generation, granular clouds.
Mining Ghosts from Your Own Catalogue
Audio archaeology for musicians — how Afterglow Engine extracts reusable textures from your finished work using STFT analysis.
dodgylegally
Creative audio sampling CLI. Turns random words into instruments via YouTube and a 5,000-word dictionary.
Manufacturing Happy Accidents
A CLI that turns random words into sample packs via YouTube — because the best sounds come from places you weren't looking.
December 2025
NotebookLM Automation
Full programmatic control over Google NotebookLM via reverse-engineered RPC. Export, generate, automate — what Google didn't build.
The Door Google Didn't Build
Audio overview of NotebookLM Automation — reverse-engineered RPC access for batch export, generation, and control.
November 2025
October 2025
TEL3SIS
Voice-first agentic platform for phone calls. Real-time STT, LLM reasoning, and TTS with sub-3s latency.
Three Seconds of Silence Is an Eternity
Audio overview of TEL3SIS — a voice-first agentic phone platform where sub-3s latency is a survival threshold, not a benchmark.
September 2025
orbitr
Rhythm as geometry. Four tracks orbit a shared centre, each at its own tempo. Polyrhythm made spatial — and MusicGen makes the sounds.
Rhythm as Geometry, Sounds from Words
Audio overview of orbitr — a circular sequencer where polyrhythm becomes spatial and MusicGen creates the sounds.
August 2025
July 2025
ordr.fm
Precision-engineered CLI for intelligent music library organisation. EXIF metadata, lossless prioritisation, zero-overwrite safety.
Personal Agentic Operating System
Most agentic systems assume the cloud. This one assumes your machine — local-first, fully observable, with a meta-agent that reads its own reflection logs.
The Tool That Earns Trust Before Features
Audio overview of ordr.fm — a CLI for music library organisation with lossless prioritisation, EXIF metadata, and zero-overwrite safety.
An Agentic System You Can Actually Reason About
Audio overview of PAOS — a local-first LLM operating system with hybrid retrieval and a self-improving meta-agent.
June 2025
Lunar Tools Prototypes
Interactive audiovisual art installations—dream interpreters, fingerprint painters, cosmic murals, and fractal forests.
When Voice Becomes Brushstroke
Twenty-plus interactive art installations where visitors speak, sing, and dream into AI systems that respond in real time.
EMDR Agent
What safety architecture does AI-assisted trauma therapy require before it has any business existing? Built to find out.
What Safety Architecture Does AI Therapy Require?
Audio overview of EMDR Agent — exploring what responsible AI-assisted trauma therapy demands before it can exist.
May 2025
Dx0
Multi-agent diagnostic system simulating physician personas against 304 NEJM clinical cases.
Grid 2.0
Deterministic AI website builder—beam search for page assembly, tone-aware components, real-time editing.
NeuroConnect
A voice helpline that knows the difference between a word-finding pause and a cry for help — and responds to both correctly.
Diagnosis as a Team Sport
Multi-agent AI diagnostic system with five physician personas, 304 NEJM cases, and a budget that forces real trade-offs.
AI for Understanding, Algorithms for Execution
A deterministic website builder where LLMs interpret intent but beam search assembles pages. Same inputs, same output, every time.
The Helpline That Knows the Difference
A 24/7 voice helpline built around neurodivergent communication — where crisis detection is deterministic and the LLM never decides if someone is safe.
April 2025
ModelAtlas
Forensic-grade intelligence framework for mapping, enriching, and trust-scoring the foundation model landscape.
Trust-Scoring the Foundation Model Landscape
Forensic-grade metadata for thousands of foundation models — recursive enrichment, provenance tracking, and trust you can quantify.
Cygnet
When housing is broken at the system level, you don't fix it by building the same thing slightly cheaper. 28 agents, 170 acres, one eco village.
Freedom Engine
The First Step Act exists. The information is public. The legal complexity makes it inaccessible. 264,000 people can't afford that gap.
Twenty-Eight Agents, One Eco Village
Audio overview of Cygnet — 28 AI agents coordinating 3D-printed housing on 170 acres in Tasmania to cut costs by 60%.
Bridging the Information Gap That Costs Years
Audio overview of Freedom Engine — AI-assisted legal Q&A helping federal inmates access First Step Act provisions.
March 2025
VERITAS
Legal AI has an integrity problem. VERITAS addresses the efficiency-trust deficit — what AI can do quickly versus what a lawyer can trust it did correctly.
The Efficiency-Trust Deficit in Legal AI
Audio deep dive into VERITAS — a legal AI platform where trust isn't a feature, it's the architecture. Built for Australian practice.
February 2025
Latent Self
A mirror that shows you what you almost are. Real-time StyleGAN2 face morphing — continuous, responsive, productively uncanny.
The Mirror That Shows What You Almost Are
Real-time StyleGAN2 face morphing as art installation — continuous, responsive, and productively uncanny.
January 2025
Strategic Acquisitions
AI-powered real estate analysis for public housing—GPT-4 insights, ML valuations, and Tasmanian spatial intelligence.
Housing Deserves Better Tooling
Audio overview of an AI-powered property analysis pipeline for public housing — spatial intelligence, ML valuations, and Tasmania's LIST.
Space Weather
The electromagnetic weather that shapes every satellite, power grid, and GPS fix — made visible. The sun is a noisy neighbour.
The Sun Is a Noisy Neighbour
Audio overview of a real-time space weather dashboard — making the invisible electromagnetic weather above us finally visible.
December 2024
Squishmallowdex
Collection tracker for 3,000+ Squishmallows. Like a Pokedex, but softer. Built for a friend's kid, tested by mine.
What Hyperfocus and a Good Excuse Can Produce in an Afternoon
Audio overview of Squishmallowdex — a kid-friendly collection tracker for 3,000+ plush creatures. No ads, no tracking.
June 2024
Home Assistant Obsidian
Obsidian inside Home Assistant — your knowledge base and your smart home on the same box, same backup, same UI.
Two Systems That Shape How You Think, One Box
Audio overview of Home Assistant Obsidian — your knowledge base and smart home on the same machine.
January 1992
Auditory Spiral
Overnight electronic music programme on RTRFM 92.1 Perth, broadcasting midnight to 6 AM from the early 1990s into the 2000s.
Six Hours of Dark Ambient at the Edge of the World
Audio overview of Auditory Spiral — overnight electronic music on RTRFM Perth, the cassette network, and a city's sonic lifeline.