WHAT’S BEEN GOING ON
Four weeks of load on the main build since the public demo went up: two thousand commits, the promotion engine, the demand plan becoming the number of record, margin on every order, a Trust page that keeps the ledger of what the system recommended and what happened next. Hexis became a Mac app as well as a phone — eighty-one jiu-jitsu and judo techniques animated, a chess-style game over the positions, a reading loop over a thousand concept cards. Sky Above relaunched on 11 October. The Hold went live on the server: a second channel where anything worth a second look waits for me, read back in batches.
September was one thing. My grandfather died, with the family around him, and I gave the eulogy — all in the space of about a week. The month centred on him, and that is as it should be. Then the mat again, after six months off. Finished a book I had owned for fifteen years and never opened. Valencia, in August, is still the week I would not give back: La Tomatina, and a first night that took my phone and left me analog. Reading more than I was. Writing more soon.
BUILDING
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Primary focus. Operational software in daily use, in the final stage before full adoption — a demand planner in it daily, specifications numbered past five hundred and eighty, a copilot of nearly eighty tools that cites its sources, more than five thousand automated tests. Four weeks since the public demo: the promotion engine, the demand plan as the number of record, margin on every order, a Trust page that keeps the ledger of what the system recommended and what happened next. Two production incidents in August, both root-caused in hours and hardened.
Hexis
Hexis, formerly Soma — a disposition acquired by practice. What began as a body operating system (six and a half years of Fitbit history freed, the Apple Watch, a WHOOP cracked over Bluetooth) is now the phone-side of my whole personal OS: a digital twin of the body with conversational capture, a Learn library of a hundred topics and a thousand concept cards with a reading loop, Mind and Life surfaces, and a bridge that lets me talk to the brain from the app. Since October it is a Mac app too: the same record on the desk. Eighty-one jiu-jitsu and judo techniques animated figure by figure, a chess-style game over the positions, an audio player for the Mind, and the tooling radar feeding straight into it. Eighty-five specifications in. The most ambitious thing I’m building.
The Always-On Server
The substrate everything else runs on. Twenty-five years of photographs and video live there on my own disks; the public demos are served from it on named subdomains; the pipelines run there on schedule; and a nightly offsite replica of the big client system’s data sits on it. Reachable from anywhere over a private mesh, exposed to no one — and watched by its own monitors.
The Framework
The build system underneath everything shipped since July — plan, spec, build, review, merge, across parallel worker terminals. It is why an idea and a working thing became the same afternoon. Every new project starts from the same scaffold, and improvements port back to the master rather than forking quietly.
The Archive
Twenty-five years of photographs and video pulled out of cloud exports, deduplicated, audited against a second drive until the missing footage came back, and rebuilt into albums from what the files already knew. It runs on the always-on server, searchable from anywhere, rented from nobody.
Watchtower
The ops layer. A board of mine froze for three weeks while the job feeding it reported success every half hour — so the rule is now watch the data, not the job. Three tiers: monitors every twenty minutes, nightly verifiers that read the logs and judge what a dumb check can’t, weekly audits. Everything lands on one phone, and it alerts on the change, never on every failing run. Newest piece: share a link from my phone and get a verdict back on whether it’s worth adopting. And since 23 September, the Hold: a second channel where anything I see worth a second look is sent and kept on the server — no model in the intake, a shelf rather than an assistant — read back in batches, and the batches become the memos that decide what gets adopted.
FlatSignal
Running. Good London flats go before the viewing — thousands of listings watched, deduped, scored with an explainable model, live at flatsignal.app with accounts, plans and instant alerts. The board froze for three weeks in August because the pipeline kept reporting success while publishing stale data; fixed with incremental reads, a loud failure and a freshness assertion. That incident is what created Watchtower — which then earned itself on 15 September, when a hung process stalled the board and the fix took three days instead of three weeks.
Cockpit
Demoed to the team and in use under per-person logins. Sales intelligence for the day job, built on my own stack. A deliberately narrow browser extension arms you from any open record, and the engine is exposed as a gated service. It also reads market news across industries and keywords, relates each item back to what we sell and who we sell it to, and writes the team a weekly market-and-industry dossier. It never sends anything — zero-send by design.
Sky Above
Relaunched 11 October 2026. The ephemeris rebuilt, one design across the whole site, the Pattern Deck — a reading distilled into cards you keep — a Today edition composed on a schedule, and People and Ask in place of the old compatibility pages. Still free. The phone build exists and is not on the store yet.
APCP
The commercialisation platform — closing the repo-to-revenue gap. Point it at a working repo and it wires the business around it: domain, email, payments, legal, analytics, accounting, human approval on every consequential step. Run one took FlatSignal from side project to revenue-wired in three days. It feeds the other projects rather than demanding a slot of its own.
God's Favourite
As and when the competitions run. ML coordinate prediction in visual data — EfficientNet-b0 regression with human gaze overlay. Won first entry.
PS Vita
A first-generation OLED Vita, opened up for good and loaded over USB with games, emulators and readers. I do not play games — I did it because cracking a fifteen-year-old handheld open is fun. The plan it is really for: a thin client to the always-on server, so the Vita is a screen, a microphone and a set of controls while the server does the thinking.
LandSignal
Started as a conversation at a family birthday with a relative’s business partner: this is the problem, could software see it coming? I built it — land and planning signals, national repossession and planning-application coverage — took it back to him, and acted on the feedback. The pilot demo is live at land-intel.parambahia.com. The conversation continues; the build waits for it.
Venture Lab
The venture-research thread — which business best combines two very different sets of strengths. Parked at its first gate while the commercial conversation it belongs to plays out. The glasses demo, a live-camera eyewear try-on, is kept as the first candidate’s evidence rather than the answer. Research, not a product yet.
Crash Derby Arena
Ticking over in a browser tab. My first game — the PS2 couch demolition derby I half-remembered, rebuilt from scratch. Sixteen banger cars in a dirt bowl, custom crash physics, personality bots, comic-book hits. Playable in five days, then fourteen waves deep: a full county-fair economy, an aggression layer, split-screen. Since 23 October it runs in the browser at cda.parambahia.com, with a lobby friends join by code; the synced round is the next build.
Certa
Parked. Crossed from polished demo to working software in one overnight run — real accounts, per-organisation isolation, document vault, AI-read certificate ingestion behind human review. Demo still live.
Kallos
Parked, and still live. What the Ancient Greeks would have said about your face. One tweet about physiognomy, one day of building — four classical temperaments, a statue twin, the Bald Verdict. Honest that it’s play, not science.
Wave Checker
Parked, and the group chat still uses it. Weekend surf verdicts for North Devon, Sydney, and New York, recalibrated to the actual crew: wave size gates the whole score, so a glassy ankle-high day can never read as good.
Inner Axis
Parked, live at inneraxis.ai — the full-circle return of the worldview-oracle GPT that first showed me what AI could do. Answer hard questions, get a star chart of the philosophical traditions your views resemble. Resemblance, not diagnosis.
Flight Signal
Left running, checked daily. The deal-alert newsletter rebuilt as personal infrastructure — fares verified daily against live prices, scored against benchmarks learned from its own history, red-eye warnings included. Costs nothing to run.
Anamnesis
Parked. The unforgetting — years of handwritten journals made into a living, local-only record that reflects back through whichever lens I choose. Private by design; no findings published.
Job Search Automator
Parked, and still running for the people it was built for. Boards scraped daily, every role scored against the real CV, the tailored CV and the outreach drafted. It never applies for anyone — it does the sifting and the first drafts; a human does the judgment and the send.
Obsidian Dashboard
Built, and then never used. One board over every project, rendered in my notes app from a small file each project writes when a session closes. I never found the moment I needed it — the boards and the phone digest already answered the question. Worth saying out loud: not everything you build earns a place in the day.
Mercurius
Wound down on evidence. Rebuilt around honest walk-forward backtests; five strategies tested, every one negative after real costs. The apparatus and the method carry forward. Full case file at /work/mercurius.
And endless more ideas in the queue. The discipline is not starting everything — it’s channelling energy into the things with the highest leverage. Do less, but do it completely.
READING
The Elegant Universe— Brian Greene
The Truth— Neil Strauss
My Secret Garden— Nancy Friday
- The Secret Teachings of All Ages — Manly P. Hall
- Notes from Underground — Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Greenlights — Matthew McConaughey
- Letters from Julius Caesar
- Letters from George Patton
- Meditations — Marcus Aurelius
THINKING
Congruence over comfort. The things that feel right are the things that compound. The things that feel easy are usually the things that decay.
Attention is the whole game. I used to measure a month by how many things I started; now I measure it by how few I let in. Parking something you like is a harder discipline than starting something new.
The system is in daily use, which changes what the work asks for. Not scattered energy — directed energy. One thing at a time, done properly, stacked on the last one.
Still practising detachment from outcomes. The work is the work. Results are a trailing indicator of the habits you set months ago. Trust the process. Stay in the room.
Increasingly comfortable with ambiguity. Not everything needs to resolve. Not every question needs an answer today. Hold the tension, keep moving, let the clarity arrive on its own schedule.