Personal.

Off the clock

I'm not one for small talk, so this is the long way of sharing my life with others: what I'm reading, building and thinking about.

Now

What I'm up to lately - updated when something changes

Updated June 2026 · Dubai

Building a personal AI assistant that runs most of my day over Telegram - calendar, mail, the home, reminders, the lot.

Trying to find ways to make money while I sleep, through systematic trading.

Tinkering with running LLMs locally, so I'm not a slave to OpenAI and Anthropic for my AI fix (go Qwen 3.6 27B!).

Staying in touch with tech and business news (shout out to Stratechery).

Reading

Fifteen minutes most nights - non-fiction, broadly · pulled live from Goodreads

On the shelf

Projects & experiments

Things I've built for myself, for fun, or to find out

Telegram AI assistant

A personal assistant that runs most of my day over Telegram - calendar, mail, grocery tracking, reminders, and anything else I need help with. Trying to make it the hub that the rest of my life plugs into.

llm · automation →

Local LLM experimentation

Running open models like Qwen and Gemma on my own GPU. I know they're not as smart as the cloud models (yet), but they're in my control - mainly for privacy, cost, and to stay ahead of the subscription squeeze that I'm sure is coming.

llm · self-hosting →

Systematic trading model

Trying a few different trading systems across stocks, commodities and crypto. All running in paper mode for now, to see if anything actually works.

ml · finance →

SMS expense tracker

Reads my bank's transaction SMS with Tasker and a fine-tuned ChatGPT model, then logs and categorizes every spend into Google Sheets on its own.

tasker · llm →

Deep Dive

NotebookLM for my own feeds: it reads a week of podcasts and YouTube, writes one consolidated take, then lets me ask questions until I actually understand it.

rag · llm →

Parking watcher

Reverse-engineered the office parking app's API and wrote a Python script that pings me on Telegram the moment a spot opens up. Small problem, disproportionately satisfying fix.

reverse-eng →

Home lab

A NUC server, a desktop, Home Assistant and Plex. The routines run the flat - lights dimming to a red hue by late evening, the projector waking five minutes before kickoff, everything off when nobody's home - and I automate anything I'd otherwise do twice.

home assistant →