Chapter 4
Lab
The one blog. AI systems I built and run, devlog entries and experiments, newest first, every number sourced.
- Release logDated releases across the products I own. Newest first. Every row names its source.16public releases across 7 products, Mar to Nov 2026
- CartPilot: from kickoff to the Shopify App StoreOne AI shopping assistant, three platforms: first release in May, WordPress.org in July, Shopify App Store in September. What changed at each launch.
- How I test image and video models before I pick oneComfyUI workflows, a dozen models and real billed cost. What I learned about quality, price and keeping a subject consistent.
- Inside my AI story reel pipelineFrom a story idea to a finished one-minute reel: shot planning, 8-bit scenes, zoom and pan edits, voiceover, subtitles and music.
- Letting marketplace owners design their own product formWhy we built a dynamic form manager for product editing, and what it changed for marketplace owners and their vendors.
- Untangling 500 settings: how I regrouped Dokan into 42 modulesAbout 500 interconnected settings, one new structure and UI. What I grouped, what I cut, and how we kept existing stores working.
