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• 12 July 2026

  Classic literature: an AI showcase (13.5 hours over 3 days)

  I've forgotten most of the books I've read, and I'll never read the whole canon anyway. So over three days, and 13.5 hours with Claude Code, I built a personal map of the classics of literature and ho…

• 10 June 2026

  Access to financial advice: the FMA has questions for everyone except itself

  The FMA's access to advice report gets one important thing right. But a report that urges banks deeper into advice without acknowledging the risks, and that critiques sector conservatism without any a…

• 22 April 2026

  Where does your money go? I built an app to find out.

  Do you actually know where your money goes? Not roughly — actually know? Most people can't, and I couldn't either. So I built Snoopy: a private desktop app that turns a pile of bank CSVs into a clear…

• 9 March 2026

  Your insurance application is a health check in disguise

  When you apply for personal insurance, the application forms require you to answer some remarkably personal questions. Those questions exist because actuaries have spent decades researching what drive…

• 13 February 2026

  Spending through the tax code

  The Government doesn't only support people through benefit payments and public services. There's a third, largely invisible form: tax concessions. When the Government simply doesn't collect tax it cou…

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