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Field notes from the deep end of publishing infrastructure.

Practical write-ups on what actually holds up when one person runs a dozen properties — operations, applied AI, and the cost of both.

A lone figure at a glowing console with light filaments radiating outward

Operations12 Aug 20268 min

Running twelve domains from one control tower

What I stopped doing by hand, what I refuse to automate, and the single dashboard that replaced nine browser tabs.
An antique rotary telephone lit by cold blue light on a dark desk

Applied AI29 Jul 20267 min

The AI receptionist answering a 175-year-old newspaper

Twilio, Claude and a 3CX PBX: how a two-person office stopped losing calls without hiring anyone.
Light streams converging through a narrow luminous gate

Cost03 Jul 20269 min

Model routing on a publisher's budget

A cheap tier, a smart tier and a local tier — with rules for which one gets each job, and what it cost me to learn them.