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Digital Craft Workshop

A one-person digital workshop. Product series on the tools I build and sell, and personal essays on why I build them — by an engineer buying his freedom one small product at a time.

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The workshop map: what I build, the numbers behind it, and where to begin.

The 2-Hour Faceless Video With 2 Million Views

Business documentaries dressed as crime thrillers. Faceless Breakdown, episode 4.

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I Built a Free Version of My $39 Product in One Evening

QuickReel is live: paste your text, get back a narrated reel. Three things broke on the way to the cloud.

20 Million Subscribers, No Face, No AI — and a 9-Second Video

The control group for faceless channels. Faceless Breakdown, episode 3.

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Thirty-Three Days, 41,799 Views, and €0

The forecast said 45 % chance of nothing much. That is where the channel landed — and one format took 76 % of the views.

AI vs Author: Reading "When Context Becomes a Cage"

An AI read Katherine Lazarevich's essay and built a reel from it. She says what it got right and what it missed.

A Channel Dashboard With No Server

One generated HTML file, a worker that started at 44 lines, and the case against deploying an app for four read views

The 53-Million-View AI History Video Whose Creator Went Dark

The historians were right, the clones won anyway. Faceless Breakdown, episode 2.

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The World That Waited

Games That Shaped Me, part two — the button that let a kid decide when the world moves

A pilot for a channel that doesn't exist yet

40 seconds, two voices, one kitchen. I've watched it too many times to see it straight.

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