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A logbook for the things I build, test, learn and occasionally overthink.
Some of it is product work without a client. Some of it is personal systems. Some of it is just curiosity with a slightly unreasonable amount of structure. The point is not to look busy. It is to keep practising: shipping small tools, testing workflows, learning new patterns and noticing what actually sticks. Some entries are live. Some are rough. Some are still becoming useful. I keep them here because the pattern matters: build small, learn fast, keep what survives contact with real use.
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Building
Side projects & experiments.
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Learning
Notes & reading.
03
Making
Music & creative.
04
Moving
Travel & fitness.
01 · BUILDING
Side projects & experiments.
Small tools, prototypes, and systems I wished existed.
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FitLog AI A voice-first nutrition and training tracker for people who want useful insight without turning every meal into admin. I started sketching it because I kept running into the same problem myself: tracking works, but manual tracking gets old fast. Coming soon
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ShadowPM A lightweight backlog and delivery tracker for solo builders and small projects. Not Jira for one person. More like a quiet layer for keeping work visible, decisions honest and loose ideas from pretending they are progress. Posted 24 Jun 2026
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Portfolio Engine The system behind this site. I rebuilt the portfolio from hand-coded pages into a more maintainable content engine for case studies, writing, experiments and updates. Less page-by-page wrestling. More room to publish. Coming soon
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Prompt & workflow systems Reusable prompt chains, research flows and operating routines for turning vague tasks into clearer outputs, decisions and next actions. Some are polished. Some are ugly. The useful ones survive. Coming soon
02 · LEARNING
Notes & reading.
Ideas I keep returning to, mostly half-formed.
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AI product patterns How AI changes the shape of everyday tools: not as magic, but as a way to reduce friction, summarise messy input, suggest next actions and make small systems feel more useful. Posted 24 Jun 2026
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Product, BA and delivery practice Backlogs, requirements, prioritisation, stakeholder alignment, discovery, acceptance criteria and the unglamorous work of turning unclear requests into something a team can actually ship. Coming soon
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Systems thinking and automation How information moves, where handovers break, what should be automated, and what should stay human because forcing a workflow too hard usually creates a different mess. Coming soon
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UX and digital strategy How people understand services, make decisions, trust interfaces and move from interest to action. Useful when building products. Even more useful when fixing confusing operations. Coming soon
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Fitness, nutrition and chess Personal systems for training, food, attention and decision-making. Different arenas, same pattern: observe the loop, reduce friction, track what matters, and adjust without turning life into a spreadsheet. Coming soon
03 · MAKING
Music & creative.
Sound and visual work, a different kind of problem.
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Music Guitar has been one of the longest-running systems in my life: practice, rhythm, repetition, taste and the occasional reminder that progress is rarely linear. Coming soon
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Content Short-form ideas, posts, reels and small publishing experiments. I use content less as performance and more as a way to clarify what I actually think. Coming soon
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Travel photography A visual record of places, streets, weather, people, patterns and small details that would otherwise disappear by Monday. Posted 24 Jun 2026
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Digital brain My personal knowledge system for notes, prompts, ideas, drafts, project context and half-formed thoughts that need somewhere better to live than seventeen open tabs. Coming soon
04 · MOVING
Travel & fitness.
Time away from the screen, on foot or further.
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Fitness and endurance Fitness as a lifestyle rather than a task: gym strength work alongside tennis, cycling, hiking and long walks, and why endurance means the capacity to keep going without falling apart. Posted 24 Jun 2026
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Food and tracking Nutrition systems that are useful without becoming obsessive. This is also where FitLog AI started: from the simple frustration that food tracking works, but the manual input is tedious enough to make people quit. Coming soon
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Routines Small repeatable structures for training, work, sleep, planning and attention. Not the kind that require a perfect morning routine and a monk-like personality. Just enough structure to keep the week from drifting. Coming soon
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Wellbeing The quieter side of performance: recovery, reflection, mental bandwidth, time outside, and knowing when the system needs rest rather than another optimisation. Coming soon