Moving a website without losing its address book
LiveDXB’s migration: content, old addresses, images, and language versions. Why the move began with a map of content and links rather than a new homepage.
Neural networks, AI tools, and vibe coding in my work and daily life: experiments, practical insights, automation, digital products, design, and a new way of building faster, freer, and with more creative momentum
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Three websites under one roof: learning where to put the walls
A shared Astro foundation for Nevsky, LiveDXB and the portfolio: what could be reused and why the sites later needed independent boundaries.
I built an editorial pipeline. Then I put a pause back into it
Historical Content OS: Custom GPT, a structured ContentPack and editorial control. What I kept in today’s content work and what I stopped automating.
The mortgage calculator I told not to make things up
The Dubai purchase calculator separates property price, bank valuation and transaction costs. Formulas run independently of AI; market assumptions are dated August 2026.
A broker CRM that keeps promises from disappearing into chat
My broker CRM: contacts, working agreements, and tasks alongside manual messaging. What is implemented and which modules remain paused.
I Built a Mortgage Calculator for Dubai: Numbers First, Property Second
A Dubai mortgage is more than a down payment. I built a calculator that works out real cash required for the transaction, payments, DBR, DLD fees, bank valuation, returns and rent-versus-buy — in Russian, English and Arabic.
Two Hours in a Café: How We Built Industrial Intelligence with ChatGPT and Codex
In two hours at a Dubai café, Anna — my secret business adviser — and I went from an idea to a B2B product: ChatGPT shaped the industry logic and data, Codex built the web service, and Cloudflare took it to production.
1,064,143,356 tokens: how I work with Cursor and what the first billion taught me
In a month I ran more than a billion tokens through Cursor. I unpack my usage, work out where the number comes from, and set down a working system: how to split tasks across sessions, when to open a new chat, and how to use Agent, Rules, Plan Mode and Subagents
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