A year with AI.

Around 100 pages on value, bankroll, variance, psychology, market structure and sport-specific edges. I wanted to gather what I have learned in one place, without stories or filler. It is written to be the one book someone reads, not the first of fifteen.

A Google Sheets system I have used and developed myself for many years. It tracks Kelly staking, CLV, calibration and return by sport and market, and makes you answer the same review questions every week and month. The point is to measure what actually tells you something over time, such as whether you beat the closing odds, not just wins and losses.

It has now been polished up and put on sale, though I don't expect a huge market for it.

My latest project started with my mum, who is 67. She wanted a colour planner for a patchwork blanket she was knitting for her granddaughter Jenny. Less than fifteen minutes later, the first version was online. She could try colours and patterns before picking up the yarn.

The tool lets her colour the squares, view a knitted colour example and save the pattern as an image. It was a small first prototype, but seeing her face made me think there must be other people with an idea they would love some help making.

That led to an idea for freelance work: helping small businesses with websites, small apps and other digital tasks, within an agreed scope and budget. The freelance offering is still taking shape; the blanket planner is already there to try.

This year I'm writing a series of novels. It's what I do when I'm supposed to be relaxing, and I find it really exciting. I do the writing itself without AI, but I needed someone who could read closely, be honest and explain why a text works or doesn't.

Karlove is built on a Claude skill I have trained with a large collection of notes from books on writing. It is as much a writing coach as an editor: it always explains why something works or doesn't, and points to its sources. That makes it far better schooled than an ordinary conversation with a chatbot about the same text. And it never touches the text. It only gives advice.

In today's recruitment landscape, it can be hard to get through to employers who don't know you. And when I have hired people myself, I would have loved to find something like this about them. Here people can show what it's like to work with them, through words from others, stories and things they have achieved. The core idea is that other people write about you through a link, and you choose what is shown.

Job ads with tightly defined roles can feel a little old-fashioned in 2026, at least in the kind of companies I would like to work for. So the page is just as much an invitation to see possibilities. I'm trying it out on myself as I step up the search for my next employer.

A small, mobile-first tool that spins a roulette wheel of pre-approved holiday destinations. Only places with the forecast on their side for the next couple of weeks make it onto the wheel. The filters take into account where you fly from, how long your holiday is, your budget, how close you want to be to the sea and who you're travelling with.

I built it in three days with Claude Code, purely as a safe trial to get properly comfortable with the tool before I dared let it loose on the holy of holies, Mr. World Pool. Until then, I had been painstakingly careful with every detail there.

It's unlikely to earn much from affiliate links, and I don't plan to spend much time on it. It is a small tribute to ukekalender.no and the other little websites I have enjoyed for years.

I think dating apps work poorly, especially for introverts. Textrodate introduces you to someone and gives you both a little get-to-know-you game: letters, unexpected questions and a picture that slowly comes into focus. Nobody swipes.

It's the least developed of my projects, and I'm not sure I'll take it any further. It was mostly me playing with an idea I liked.