Sovereign AI on a Synology NAS for a Small Agency
A practical look at what a small agency needs to make a Synology NAS searchable with a local AI stack on a Mac Studio, and what is still undecided.
My writings
Dispatches from a life spent online.
When a client asks for SEO and needs GEO
Clients ask for SEO when their real problem is that machines do not understand who they are or where they operate. This is how a small agency sells GEO work without overpromising.
The 6:40 AM Morning Kickstart protocol
At 6:40 AM the Morning Kickstart stops being about vibes and starts being about routing. It looks like wellness, but it behaves like project management.
The grid decision that rewrote my lightbox logic
Locking aspect ratios on the Aftertype themes grid forced a rewrite of the lightbox and breakpoints, and made the gallery better at selling design.
Running a baseball weekend with Heja, iScore, and WhatsApp
A simple workflow for a five-team baseball club using Heja, iScore, WhatsApp, a 4-inning rotation PDF, and Instagram batching instead of heavy sports software.
Schema.org markup and entity recognition in 2026
How site-wide Schema.org markup and an llms.txt file shifted Aftertype from vague impressions to clearer entity recognition in 2026.
When a ChatGPT sync bug made my Mac the source of truth
A ChatGPT projects sync bug left my desktop app and the web client disagreeing about reality, so I treated one Mac as the source of truth and reached it remotely.
Why I finally deleted NotePlan
NotePlan looked perfect on paper, but the interface kept getting in the way. Dropping it for a simple 4‑app stack made work feel lighter and tasks easier to manage.
Gamifying Cardiac Rehab with Habitica
How I use Habitica to turn cardiac rehab and daily routines into an RPG: a 6:40 circuit as a Daily, WHOOP recovery as XP, and a shutdown ritual quest.
A CSS Hover-Reveal Pattern for Technical Specs
A CSS-only hover-reveal pattern for Gate Seal specs, with keyboard focus fallback, that keeps core numbers visible and tucks extra context behind intent.
ABM landing pages for maritime cybersecurity
Using the Blackhole Networks case to show what changes when you stop treating industrial cybersecurity buyers like generic SaaS traffic and start designing ABM landing pages on purpose.
From hobby banknote app to an enterprise AI pitch
A hobby banknote recognition app with a React Native + Expo camera pipeline grew into a serious AI intake tool and a pitch to a major currency grading company.