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Writing — three articles

small list, no filler

Three articles, not thirty. Each links to the code it depends on, because writing without receipts is just content. More are scheduled around the case studies on this site — the cadence I actually keep, stated honestly: one substantial piece per month, each anchored to shipped code.

2026-05-18 I Ran Gemma 4 on a $7/Month Server and Built an AI-Powered News Monitor That Costs $0 to OperateWhat I bring to engineering: measured cost tables, real failure handling, no hand-waving. 12 min 2026-05-18 The Agent That Writes Its Own Manual: Hermes Agent's Self-Improving ArchitectureHow I read someone else's system: architecture-first, framed as analysis, not authorship. 8 min 2026-04-07 SHIPPED™ — I Built an Enterprise AI Platform That Generates the Illusion of ProgressThat the industry deserves comedy as much as code review. 3 min

the longer, weirder shelf

The Optimized Human — Weekly-ish essays on attention, stoicism and shipping. The other half of my brain.

RRRTX Systems blog — Three posts on automation ROI for small businesses — written for clients, not for clout.

ahmad@xr:~% ask — grounded in this site · no LLM, no invented answers

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