September 8, 2026 · 1 min

A Note on the Posts That Were Here

A number of posts that were previously published here have been taken down. They were drafted with help from an AI writing pipeline that’s part of LUMIS, and on review some of them made claims I couldn’t stand behind — details that weren’t grounded in anything I actually did or verified. Rather than leave them up while I sort that out, I pulled them. I’m working on grounding a rewrite process in my own source records — commit history, session logs, the actual project — so posts are built from what happened, not from what a model guessed happened. As each one clears that bar, it’ll come back, one at a time. ...

July 20, 2026 · 2 min

Welcome to the Build: Why I'm Doing This in Public

If you’ve stumbled onto this blog, here’s what you need to know: this is not a finished product. It’s a construction site — and I’m inviting you in. Over the past several months I’ve been building LUMIS, my personal AI assistant, from scratch. Not using an off-the-shelf app. Not plugging into someone else’s platform. Actually building it — the memory system, the research pipeline, the content tools, even the bot that sent me a reminder to write this post. ...