Pi Agent: Ranger's Best Companion
September 26, 2026
A hands-on guide to the Pi agent: setup, prompts, AGENTS.md, skills and extensions, plus local versus cloud LLMs.
Blog
Local AI: A Practical Guide for Digital Rangers
September 11, 2026
A practical guide to running LLMs locally with Ollama, adding your own documents via RAG, and understanding how autonomous agents work.
AI Series: Over a Cup of Coffee
September 06, 2026
Personal reflections on the real value of AI: competitive edge, SaaS, delegation, universal income and the future of work and learning.
The Digital Workout: Why Lifting 'Dead Metal' in the Age of AI Matters
August 15, 2026
Why delegating all thinking to AI weakens our skills, and why deliberate effort works like strength training for the mind.
Digital Survival: Mobile Phone as SPOF (Single Point of Failure)
August 15, 2026
How to stop depending on your phone and phone number for logins, using hardware security keys and a layered backup protocol.
I Reclaimed My Attention: Why I Built a 'Digital Blade' to Cut Off the AI Slop
May 14, 2026
Why I built Deep Reader, a short Python tool that strips clutter from web pages and extracts clean Markdown text for focused reading.
Debugging Reality: Why Your Focus Can Literally Change The Universe
April 23, 2026
An information-theory and neurophysics view of focus: thoughts as physical signals, brain noise, coherence and meditation as a filter.
The Silent Scout: Building a Low-Profile Digital Resilience Tool
January 09, 2026
How to build a cheap, expendable field-monitoring tool from ESP32 firmware and a Python dashboard, with the design reasoning behind it.
Protocol for Two: Building a Tactical Relationship System in a 4-Day Sprint
December 19, 2025
A case study of building and launching a relationship card-deck product in four days with AI, WordPress and a lean maker stack.
From Raw Signal to Strategic Insight: Building a Data Pipeline with Python
November 29, 2025
A Python data workflow with VS Code, Jupyter, NumPy, Pandas, Matplotlib and Streamlit, from raw data to insight.
The Digital Survival Drive: Building an Autonomous Cyber-EDC
November 23, 2025
How to build an autonomous digital survival USB drive with Ventoy, Tails, Kali Linux, VeraCrypt, offline maps and data recovery tools.
The Modern Architect's Playbook: A Guide to AI-Assisted Development
October 16, 2025
A practical method for AI-assisted development: design the architecture first, then split roles between planning LLMs and an in-editor assistant.
Basic Training is Over: The New Role of Developers in the AI War Room
October 04, 2025
How the developer's role shifts from writing code to directing AI, and why programming fundamentals still matter.
The Surprising Advantage: Why Learning a Third Language in Your 30s and 40s is Easier Than You Think
September 24, 2025
Why adults can learn a third language more easily than they expect, thanks to cognitive, linguistic and motivational advantages.
The Stagnation Trap & The Chaos Paralysis: A Strategy for Learning in a Complex World
September 14, 2025
Why both stable and chaotic environments hinder learning, and how a middle path and a generalist mindset build resilience.
The Hidden Cost of AI: Are We Automating Our Ability to Think?
September 14, 2025
Why handing research and synthesis to AI can erode focus, mental stamina and critical thinking, and what to keep doing yourself.
The Heart of a Language: My Key to Truly Learning
September 14, 2025
A language-learning method built on finding each language's core principle, illustrated with English, Spanish and Czech.
The Efficiency Trap: Why Resilience is Your Most Valuable Asset
September 14, 2025
Why maximally efficient systems are brittle, and how reserves, redundancy and modularity make businesses and software resilient.
The Biology of Code: What Insects Can Teach Us About Great Software Design
September 14, 2025
How simple organisms mirror object-oriented programming, and what biology can teach us about designing software.
Strategic Learning: In the AI Tech Tsunami
September 14, 2025
How to choose what to learn amid a flood of AI tools: prioritize fundamentals and enduring value over novelty.
Earth is Not Enough: The Strategic Case for Asteroid Mining
September 14, 2025
The case for asteroid mining as a response to growing resource demand and the environmental and social costs of terrestrial mining.
AI-Resistant Skills: A Practical Framework for Your Career in the AI Era
September 14, 2025
A hands-on framework for judging which skills and fields resist AI automation, with examples from marketing, software and complex projects.
Ignition Sequence: How to Flash MicroPython onto Your ESP32
August 11, 2025
A step-by-step guide to flashing MicroPython firmware onto an ESP32, using either the Thonny IDE or the esptool terminal.
MicroPython: Bridging the Digital and Physical Worlds
August 10, 2025
How MicroPython runs Python on microcontrollers for IoT, sensors, robotics and edge AI, with a learning timeline and hardware overview.
Flask: Build Your Mission Control HQ for the Web !
August 06, 2025
An introduction to Flask, the Python microframework for web apps and REST APIs, with a learning path from basics to deployment.
Why Python? My Guide to Your First Digital Expedition
May 16, 2025
Why Python is a good first programming language, what it is used for, and how to grow from core skills into a specialization.
The Future of Coding: Navigating the Next Decade to 2035
October 31, 2024
How AI is reshaping software development from 2022 to 2035, and what each stage means for developers.
Principles of Programming
March 18, 2024
The core concepts every programmer needs, from variables and data types to loops and functions, explained with Python examples.