Hi, I'm Patrick.
Product Owner and AI builder. Irish, based in the Hochtaunus. I write about product, automation and my homelab.
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Notes from product work, AI and the homelab.
- How to Analyze and Research Information Very Quickly from YouTube in the Age of AI
Stop watching hour-long videos to find three useful minutes. Pull the transcript, let an AI triage it, ask sharp questions, then check the claims that matter. - I Cloned a $99 per month Cold Emailing Tool with Claude and a €3 VPS in an Afternoon
- The banned books iceberg, updated for today
Most banned-book lists stop at school challenges and historical classics. Here's what the rest of the iceberg looks like now, and why I built a catalogue for it. - Not emulation: how recomps and decomps are turning old console games into native PC ports
AnyPS5 claims to run PS5 binaries on PC without an emulator, and AI is speeding up decompilation. Here's how recomps and decomps are turning old console games into native ports.