A Personal Site Can Still Be a Production System
What changes when a personal site gets the same release discipline as a real product without losing the parks, cats, and odd little details.
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The Log
Field notes on applied AI, legal tech, and independent software, with occasional cat-supervised detours. Written between deploys, coasters, and LEGO sorting sessions.
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Status Labels Are Product Design
Why shipped, preview, prototype, stale, and unavailable need to be treated as interface contracts instead of small decorative badges.
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When a Table Beats a Card
What the Park Field Guide taught me about choosing real rows and headings over taller, friendlier cards when the task is comparison.
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Predicting theme-park crowds without pretending
How I am building a cautious seven-day crowd outlook from live waits, licensed recent history, park hours, and weather, while keeping unknown data unknown.
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Court Audio Chain of Custody: Preserve the Original, Work From a Copy
A practical court-audio preservation workflow: document intake, protect the source, hash carefully, convert from a working copy, and record every handoff.
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Why I Open-Sourced DepoAudio (and What Free Tools Do for Court Reporting)
The story behind giving the court-audio converter away: why some legal-tech plumbing should just be free, and what that does for trust in a vendor-locked field.
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An AI Reliability Checklist for Law Firms (One Page — Print It)
A printable checklist for legal AI reliability: model portability, data control, human-in-the-loop, and fallbacks. The one-pager an office manager can actually pin up.
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Building DepoStack in Public: What Court Reporting Software Should Be
A build-log on the principles behind DepoStack: vendor-neutral, on-device, professional-first. What's broken in legacy court reporting software, and what I'm doing differently.
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Digital Court Reporting: The Workflow Nobody Explains
A field-tested guide to digital court reporting, from live capture and preservation through transcript review, certification, secure delivery, and AI-assisted work.
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Page:Line or It Didn't Happen: Making AI Cite the Record
A dangerous legal-AI failure is confident, uncited fabrication. Here is how to require page:line support in a prompt and review the result.
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Achievements
21 unlocked
Little wins, shelved by the things I do off the clock: built, ridden, visited, shipped, and otherwise unlocked.