Love loudly — then make it legal
A Pride shout-out to my friends at Life Plan Law here in St. Pete, and why the paperwork — wills, directives, powers of attorney — is one of the most underrated forms of love there is.
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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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What Happens to Legal AI Tools When the Government Pulls the Plug?
A continuity checklist for legal teams that depend on hosted AI models: portability, human review, data control, and a tested fallback.
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Coding for the cats
I built a free WordPress plugin that places CJ Paws' public Petfinder listings in a filterable, on-brand grid without a Petfinder API key.
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How to Handle SGMCA, FTR & BWF Court Recordings Safely
Identify SGMCA, FTR/TRM, and BWF court recordings, preserve the source files, convert a working copy locally, and verify the result.
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What Happens When the Person Who Runs the Court Reporting Tech Also Builds the Tools
I run technology at a court reporting firm founded in 1981 and build tools for the same field—what that changes about legal tech, AI, and the record.
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When the frontier gets recalled
Anthropic said a US directive suspended Fable 5 and Mythos 5. A June 2026 snapshot of what that meant for people building on hosted models.
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Stop prompting like you're Googling
CasePrompts is in preview: free, copy-ready AI prompts for litigation, built on the CITE method — with citation discipline baked in.
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Hello, world
The Log opens — what this blog is, what to expect, and why it looks like a terminal.
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DepoAudio: getting court audio out of jail
Why I built a free, open-source desktop app that converts supported court audio locally, with experimental FTR/TRM handling.
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The trophy case
Little wins — built, ridden, visited, shipped, and otherwise unlocked — shelved by the things I do off the clock.