THE LOGBOOK · 18:45 · LIGHT FADING · 10 ENTRIES

Notes from the trail.

Technical writing on AI development, language technology, live streaming infrastructure, and indie game dev.

A rain-slicked city street at night, cordoned off with police tape under neon and fog

LOG · 2026-07-15 · 10 MIN

Murder Mystery: a voice-acted AI detective game you interrogate out loud

Six suspects. One lie that doesn't hold. Every case is generated backwards from the solution, every suspect answers in their own voice, and the killer is yours to catch.

LOG · 2026-07-15 · 10 MIN

Sienna: an open-source AI music player with a personality

A desk companion that DJs a never-ending YouTube mix with minimal repeats — and remembers you, talks back, and evolves a personality of her own. ESP32 + Node, all on GitHub.

LOG · 2026-07-15 · 9 MIN

FlowX: train away bad speaking habits with a clock that resets when you slip

A live scoreboard of time since your last slip. Built for streamers with an OBS overlay, useful for anyone who wants to drop the "um", the "sorry", or the swearing.

LOG · 2026-07-15 · 9 MIN

Clarion: hear yourself, clearly

A speech-practice app for communicating with clarity and confidence. Read a scored teleprompter while hearing your own voice live, delayed, or masked in your headphones.

LOG · 2026-05-28 · 12 MIN

Word Exchange Plaza pivots to a Duolingo-style multi-language platform

Hindi, Arabic, French, Norwegian, and more. Teachers build their own courses, run their own ads, and produce studio-quality audio in minutes through an ElevenLabs-powered admin.

LOG · 2026-02-22 · 12 MIN

Building conversational AI agents: a developer's guide from Ottawa

A practical walkthrough of architecture, NLP pipelines, dialog management, and deployment for custom chatbot work that actually ships.

LOG · 2026-02-20 · 10 MIN

How real-time language translation works

Speech recognition pipelines, neural machine translation, and the AI plumbing that powers live speech translation apps and multilingual communication tools.

LOG · 2026-02-18 · 11 MIN

How AI is transforming ESL learning and language education

From AI conversation practice software to speech-to-text for language learning. The future of AI in education is already in classrooms.

LOG · 2026-02-15 · 13 MIN

Building AI-powered web applications

Architecture and best practices for AI-integrated web apps. API design, real-world examples, and the patterns that survive production.

LOG · 2026-02-12 · 9 MIN

Budget live streaming on a $5 VPS

A hands-on guide to a cheap live streaming server setup. Self-hosted live stream relay using open-source tools on a tiny budget.

Working on something AI-shaped?

Looking for an AI developer in Ottawa for a chat or a project? LinkedIn is the fastest way to start.

Connect on LinkedIn