AI voice
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Building AI voice applications that people actually enjoy
What changes when the interface is a conversation: latency budgets, turn-taking, persona design and the failure modes that break the illusion.
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What we learned making them.
Notes from the workshop — the architecture, trade-offs and mistakes behind the apps we build. Written while the details are still fresh, not to fill a content calendar.
Cloud architecture
8 min read
Telephony meets streaming AI: wiring a phone call to a model
Bridging a plain phone call into a streaming AI pipeline — media streams, codecs, backpressure and the state machine nobody warns you about.
Read the notes ↗Financial software
10 min read
Building a UK retirement calculator that tells the truth
Why UK tax modelling is genuinely hard, and how we structured a calculator around net spend rather than gross pot size.
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9 min read
Building educational software around Curriculum for Excellence
Designing learning software for Scottish primary pupils: mapping to CfE experiences and outcomes, pacing, motivation and safeguarding.
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7 min read
Shipping fast static apps on a CDN without breaking SEO
Server rendering, cache headers, immutable assets and crawlability — how these sites are built and deployed to stay quick and indexable.
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8 min read
Portable architecture for small products with one maintainer
Choosing infrastructure that a single person can run for years: boring dependencies, portable boundaries and an honest cost floor.
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