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A silent\nfilter teaches nobody anything; a good explanation makes the next attempt easier to spot.",[11,15,16],{},"I built all of it alone: the product, the analysis engine, seven client surfaces across\nfive platforms, and the operations behind them.",[11,18,19],{},"It is live with real users and published on the Chrome Web Store. Early — a small cohort\nrather than scale — and beta is the honest word.",[11,21,22],{},"I do not write publicly about how it decides, what it inspects, or how it is deployed.\nFor a live security product that is just a map for its adversaries. 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Employer work, so there is no repository, no\nscreenshots, and nothing here about its internals.",{"title":24,"searchDepth":25,"depth":25,"links":59},[],{},"\u002Fwork\u002Fzentro-wallet","Architect & team lead — Stratech Corp",{"title":43,"description":48},"Discontinued","archive","work\u002F2.zentro-wallet","A twenty-microservice fiat and crypto wallet platform — top-up, withdrawal, P2P transfer, scan-to-pay and a merchant marketplace, across web and mobile.",null,"2024 — 2026","AQneCUfZyfURG7W69yOGGeKzRBt9Zw440E-c4tk_yPc",{"id":72,"title":73,"body":74,"description":78,"extension":27,"featured":28,"meta":90,"navigation":28,"order":91,"path":92,"role":93,"seo":94,"status":64,"statusTone":65,"stem":95,"tagline":96,"url":68,"year":69,"__hash__":97},"work\u002Fwork\u002F3.juegalo-predictor.md","Juegalo — Predictor",{"type":8,"value":75,"toc":88},[76,79,82,85],[11,77,78],{},"Predictor was a sports-prediction game: players called outcomes ahead of real fixtures\nand were scored against what actually happened. 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Networks drop mid-bet, aggregators\nretry, rollbacks arrive for rounds that already settled. If the accounting is not\nprovably correct, the operator eats the difference.",[11,107,108],{},"So I built the whole thing from nothing — game engine, server, and a deliberately\nhostile fake wallet whose entire job is to break it: dropping responses, duplicating\ncallbacks, settling out of order, reversing what the server believes is final. You\ncannot prove fault tolerance by hoping, and you do not get to make a real counterparty\nmisbehave on demand.",[11,110,111],{},"It is playable with play money. 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The\nstorefront was never the interesting part — payment custody was.",[11,133,134],{},"Buyers fund a balance in crypto, and the server holds no private keys at all. That is a\nstructural guarantee rather than a policy promise: compromising the application does not\ncompromise anyone's funds. I started with a third-party payment processor and removed it\nin favour of settling directly on-chain — fewer intermediaries, no custody, and one less\ncompany able to freeze a balance.",[11,136,137,138,142],{},"The other hard problem was disputes. Buyers speak one language, upstream vendors speak\nanother, and these conversations rarely end with a clean signal — they trail off. An AI\nlayer reads the running thread and judges whether it actually resolved, but what it is\nallowed to ",[139,140,141],"em",{},"do"," with that judgement stays bounded, reversible and logged. 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Coding exercises are graded on what they actually produce\nrather than pattern-matched against the source. And because security knowledge decays\nbadly — you learn a class of bug, then do not see it for eight months — the whole thing\nruns on a spaced-repetition schedule that stretches as recall proves reliable and\ncollapses when it does not.",[11,170,171],{},"Ten chapters, from web fundamentals through to AI security.",[11,173,174],{},"Honest status: the platform is well ahead of the content. The labs, grader and review\nscheduler work; the curriculum is still filling in behind them.",{"title":24,"searchDepth":25,"depth":25,"links":176},[],"Reading about a vulnerability and exploiting one are unrelated skills. vt-academy is\nbuilt on the assumption that the lab is the lesson and the writing is supporting\nmaterial.",{},6,"\u002Fwork\u002Fvt-academy",{"title":156,"description":177},"In development","work\u002F6.vt-academy","A hands-on security engineering curriculum built around disposable vulnerable labs rather than video lectures.","20uVUEk-9WAriMkSmQOSKoZ5KDb9mdJKOAIJvlLkQRs",{"id":187,"title":188,"body":189,"description":193,"extension":27,"featured":28,"meta":205,"navigation":28,"order":206,"path":207,"role":32,"seo":208,"status":209,"statusTone":150,"stem":210,"tagline":211,"url":68,"year":39,"__hash__":212},"work\u002Fwork\u002F7.amplix.md","Amplix",{"type":8,"value":190,"toc":203},[191,194,197,200],[11,192,193],{},"Amplix automates the genuinely repetitive part of social media management: producing\non-brand content for several brands across several markets, then getting it out on\nschedule.",[11,195,196],{},"The real problem is not scheduling one post — it is keeping distinct brand voices\ncoherent across different regions and channels without a human rewriting everything by\nhand.",[11,198,199],{},"The decision I would defend is putting content generation behind an editable workflow\nrather than hard-coding it. That side of the product changes constantly, and it should\nnot take a deploy to change how a post gets written.",[11,201,202],{},"My second product taken from empty repository to running system alone. 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Every session starts from zero, so the context that\nmatters — what was decided last week, what is half-finished, what is deliberately\npaused — either gets re-explained or gets lost.",[11,222,223],{},"pm-mcp gives them a project board they can read and write natively, with a live kanban\ndashboard for the human side and a hook that injects the current state into every\nsession automatically.",[11,225,226],{},"The consequential decision was storing the board as plain Markdown files rather than in\na database. A database would have been easier to query and completely wrong: the whole\nvalue is that the board is diffable, versionable alongside the code, and editable by\nhand when the tool is not running.",[11,228,229],{},"It also ships a triage workflow that checks the board against the actual repository,\nbecause boards rot. I use it on my own projects daily, including this website.",{"title":24,"searchDepth":25,"depth":25,"links":231},[],{},8,"\u002Fwork\u002Fpm-mcp",{"title":215,"description":220},"Working tool","work\u002F8.pm-mcp","A single binary that gives AI coding agents persistent project memory — board, dashboard and session hook in one.","cnIDjJaChK7neczTHICqJyNqem7OUIfDoTeiWUE0hFM",{"id":241,"title":242,"body":243,"description":247,"extension":27,"featured":259,"meta":260,"navigation":28,"order":261,"path":262,"role":117,"seo":263,"status":182,"statusTone":150,"stem":264,"tagline":265,"url":68,"year":39,"__hash__":266},"work\u002Fwork\u002F9.compliance-mcp.md","compliance-mcp",{"type":8,"value":244,"toc":257},[245,248,251,254],[11,246,247],{},"When an organisation rolls out AI coding tools, someone has to answer what people are\nactually doing with them — and answer it without shipping the sensitive material\nsomewhere else to find out.",[11,249,250],{},"That constraint is the entire design. The collector makes no external AI calls at all. A\ncompliance tool that forwards the material it is inspecting to a third party has\nrecreated the exact exposure it exists to prevent, so evaluation happens locally and\nhuman judgement stays in the analyst's own session, where the data already is.",[11,252,253],{},"It runs against a mock mode too, so it can be developed and demonstrated without a live\ntenant or any real organisation's data.",[11,255,256],{},"Early: the collection layer works, the rest is designed but unbuilt.",{"title":24,"searchDepth":25,"depth":25,"links":258},[],false,{},9,"\u002Fwork\u002Fcompliance-mcp",{"title":242,"description":247},"work\u002F9.compliance-mcp","A compliance layer for enterprise AI usage that deliberately makes no external AI calls of its own.","bq9rrz7N51y38VfnOoxKKXIkqzz4NC1qCjEbq5TwPcM",{"id":268,"title":269,"body":270,"description":274,"extension":27,"featured":259,"meta":286,"navigation":28,"order":287,"path":288,"role":117,"seo":289,"status":209,"statusTone":150,"stem":290,"tagline":291,"url":68,"year":292,"__hash__":293},"work\u002Fwork\u002F10.qr-driver-connect.md","QR Driver Connect",{"type":8,"value":271,"toc":284},[272,275,278,281],[11,273,274],{},"Blocked someone in? Left your lights on? The usual fix is a phone number on a card\nbehind the windscreen, which hands it permanently to every passer-by.",[11,276,277],{},"QR Driver Connect puts a scannable sticker on the car instead. 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For\nprofessional use that trade is the entire point.",[11,306,307],{},"In development.",{"title":24,"searchDepth":25,"depth":25,"links":309},[],{},11,"\u002Fwork\u002Ffemidai",{"title":296,"description":301},"work\u002F11.femidai","Legal research for Armenian lawyers, built on one rule — no source, no answer.","hIRH3UmjG7Le-PZJfn8W6pkJC89HklB3XXs6YAO0SB4",{"id":318,"title":319,"body":320,"description":324,"extension":27,"featured":259,"meta":333,"navigation":28,"order":334,"path":335,"role":117,"seo":336,"status":337,"statusTone":65,"stem":338,"tagline":339,"url":68,"year":292,"__hash__":340},"work\u002Fwork\u002F12.droplix-cms.md","Droplix CMS",{"type":8,"value":321,"toc":331},[322,325,328],[11,323,324],{},"Built to scratch a specific itch: most lightweight CMS options treat structured SEO data\nas an afterthought, so it ends up bolted on and inconsistent across a site.",[11,326,327],{},"Droplix models it properly — metadata and structured data are fields on the content\nitself, not an extension. 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