ALSO ON THE WORKBENCH

Things I’m trying.

Interesting questions don’t all need to become companies. This is a place for small tools, experiments, prototypes and useful dead ends.

Experiment

AI agents & automation

What I wonder: Where can an agent do useful work without losing the context or judgment the task needs?

Exploring agents, MCP integrations and workflow automation.

No specific prototype outcome or public repository is claimed here.

Experiment

Public data systems

What I wonder: What should structured information remember about where it came from?

Investigating acquisition, provenance, entity resolution, confidence and change detection.

No specific prototype outcome or public repository is claimed here.

Ongoing interest

Cloud architecture

What I wonder: What is the simplest infrastructure that meets the actual constraints?

Exploring dependable APIs, pipelines and connected software systems.

No specific prototype outcome or public repository is claimed here.

Ongoing interest

Commerce & publishing integrations

What I wonder: How can systems that weren’t designed together work together?

An area of technical work across Shopify, custom integrations and publishing workflows. Client identities and implementation details remain private.

No specific prototype outcome or public repository is claimed here.

CONVERSATIONS FROM THE FIELD

OFF THE CALENDAR

Research on community calendars, event aggregation, event APIs, and the infrastructure behind trustworthy event data.

The story behind the conversations
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