Meet Hark — the AI That Finally Feels Human
Hark is a brand-new personal assistant that feels less like an AI chat and more like one long, ongoing conversation with someone who knows you. Here's why it has earned a place in my daily toolbox.
Two Quiet Weeks in the Workshop
Not much changed on this site between 7 and 23 September — but a better contact form, about fifty new concept builds and one sneaky deploy-script bug all happened behind the scenes.
Six New Sample Sites
Six new fictional concept builds joined the homepage's Practice work gallery yesterday — a marketplace, a storybook, a lifestyle platform, an outdoor brand, an industrial site, and a climate dashboard.
Splitting Off a Visuals Page
The color picker gets its own page, two new mixer sliders, an "Apply to Own" shortcut, and a caching bug that made a working feature look broken.
Two Rewrites, a Corner Bug That Wouldn't Die, and a Regression Test
New hero copy for the Home and About pages, a Firefox corner-clipping bug that took three tries to actually fix, a cursor-tracking regression along the way, and a contrast checker built to catch the next one automatically.
Building a Real Client Pitch
A real, still-private pitch for a metalworking and locksmithing business — built to a strict brief, checked in an actual browser and against a validator and a contrast formula, with real bugs caught and fixed before handoff.
A Live Demo, Two Color Fixes, and a 1983 Memory
The locksmith site preview gets a real demo link, two of the Experiment page's color effects get fixed for bright mode, and a very old memory makes it onto the About page.
A Fourth Language, a New Section, and a Softer Portrait
Japanese joins the language switcher, a new "How I work" section spells out how I make decisions, and the portrait from last time gets a proper polish pass.
A Face, a Real CV, and a Cache Bug
My own portrait finally makes it onto the site, the About page's career timeline gets rebuilt from my actual CV, and a caching mistake teaches me a lesson the hard way.
Anonymizing a Sample Site
A new sample site went up in the portfolio today — built from real research on an actual metalworking business, then deliberately scrubbed of everything real before it ever went public.
Building a Traffic Console
A ground-up redesign of the stats dashboard — a validated color system, real interactivity, and a close look at why none of it needs a GDPR consent banner.
A Day of Polish — and Two Real Bugs
A new About page milestone, smaller sliders, a full bright mode, a CTA glow rolled out sitewide — and two bugs worth explaining.
Building the Experiment Page
Six live, playable interface techniques — and the detail I like most about how they turned out.
Building This Portfolio With AI
Notes from building this site — a real example from my ongoing AI journey.