Experiments in public. Where side projects become proof of engineering judgment — building, testing, documenting, breaking, and recovering. Home of the Vox Mana build notes.
A running log of building a Commander worldbuilding tool — source-first data design, visual regression that fails for the right reasons, and keeping AI-assisted work from drifting.
open the case study →Individual build-note writeups are in progress and will appear here as they ship.
// topics in the lab
A static site has no server to crash — which is exactly why its release risks hide in the seams. Where a “static” side project still bites, and how I made it visible before launch.
AI is non-deterministic by design. I run my AI work the way I run quality engineering: operating prompts, grounding, examples, gates, and feedback loops.
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