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Introducing Cruxwire: a personal news digest that runs on your own hardware

Introducing Cruxwire: a personal news digest that runs on your own hardware

I read too much news, badly. A dozen RSS feeds, three "read it later" apps I never went back to, and the creeping sense that the algorithm-driven version of all this was optimizing for someone else's goals, not mine. So…
June 24, 2026Posted inAI Projects, Development, Updates
I Stopped Doom Scrolling By Building My Own News Feed

I Stopped Doom Scrolling By Building My Own News Feed

A few weeks ago I stopped using Reddit. Not because the content was bad. There's genuinely useful stuff there, but because I had no control over it. I was just overwhelmed with irrelevant content, negative content and constant suggestion of…
May 7, 2026Posted inAI Projects, Development, Productivity
PM by trade. Builder by nature.

 

Product manager. Microsoft, Tableau, Elastic. I’m on sabbatical, using the time to build AI systems end to end instead of reading about them: agent orchestration, vision, speech, tool use, evaluation harnesses, local and frontier models working together. Each project here comes with a deep dive into what I built, how it works, and why I made the calls I made.

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