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Products, architecture and AI, written up from real builds.



The 5p launch kit · 4 parts
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4 parts · 30 min
The 5p launch kit
Approve an idea and, 25 seconds later, have the page story, giving levels, supporter email, social posts and a dated plan — for about 5p. The model writes the words; code owns every fact.

7 parts · 57 min
The three-minute button
One press, three minutes of live research, real money every time. The engineering that makes it dependable: one row of truth, a queue lane of its own, a lock, and model output treated like form input.

10 parts · 103 min
A server that never sleeps, for $0 a month
An API with jobs that must run every minute, forever — hosted for $0 a month from India, with no open ports, an alarm that notices silence, and backups I've actually restored. The whole setup on one page.
02Articles
One idea, one sitting.

Payments
The £1,259 donation that never happened
24 Oct 2026 · 9 min read

Architecture
Proving it's yours: the second half of one-tap sign-in
24 Oct 2026 · 7 min read

Architecture
One tap to sign in, and the day the server couldn't reach Apple
23 Oct 2026 · 8 min read

Products
If your phone went quiet for two days, who would know?
18 Oct 2026 · 4 min read

Products
The small things that make Lampsill work in real life
18 Oct 2026 · 3 min read

Products
Care without watching: the decisions behind Lampsill
17 Oct 2026 · 4 min read

AI Engineering
The AI Feature That Cost £2.05 a Run — And How We Got It to 13p
24 Sept 2026 · 11 min read

Case Study
How We Built Biometric Authentication Into a Fintech Donation App
15 May 2025 · 8 min read
Process
How I Build Production-Ready MVPs in 6 Weeks
2 May 2025 · 7 min read
Technical
Flutter vs React Native: My Honest Take After 25+ Apps
10 Apr 2025 · 6 min read
Architecture
The 5 Architecture Mistakes That Stall Startups
18 Mar 2025 · 8 min read
