A/01 — monitoring
Watchtower
A media-monitoring platform for institutional clients. Saved searches, shared alerts, folders, deduplication — over an archive that only ever grows. PHP, MySQL, Redis, Elasticsearch.
MOWGLI
mowglissh
Full stack, mostly the back. I build systems that read the web all day — crawlers that keep going, extraction that survives the page changing, and search over an archive that never stops growing. Lately, models that have to cite the document they answered from.
the legacy is still in production
Stack
pythonphpfastapimysqlrediselasticsearchvuedockerlangchainIndex
A/02 — migration
The Long Port
Moving a live PHP 7.4 product to Python, endpoint by endpoint, with nobody logged out. No big-bang cutover, no parallel truth. The legacy is still in production, and that is the point.
A/03 — retrieval
Vector Room
Semantic search and question answering over the archive. Embeddings, vector search, and an assistant held to citing the document it answered from. Elasticsearch, FastAPI, LangChain.
A/04 — acquisition
Quarry
A fleet of crawlers and pluggable extractors: RSS where it exists, full text where it does not, and sites that would rather not be read. Scheduled, throttled, restartable. Python, Docker.
A/05 — editorial
Nightly
Newsletters written by a model and shaped by editorial rules — scoped per folder, per theme, per client, and sent on a schedule nobody has to remember. FastAPI, OpenAI, Mistral.
Frames, proofs, notebooks.
A/01 screen
negative
A/02 proof
notebook
workshop
panorama
contact sheet
spread
colour bardo not trim
Covers, spines, stacks
21 spines — drag them around
nightpress
The Shape of Data
01
atelier 9
Kerning by Hand
02
orbit books
Uptime
03
nightpress
Ledgers & Other Fictions
04
press 84
Cold Storage
05
atelier 9
On Legibility
06
orbit books
The Long Migration
07
press 84
Static Binaries
08
nightpress
Rooms for Machines
09
radio zero
Night Broadcast
10
atelier 9
Proofs
11
press 84
A Grammar of Interfaces
12
nightpress
Held by Hand
13
orbit books
Failure Modes
14
atelier 9
The Setting Machine
15
nightpress
Ten Years Out
16
orbit books
Edge Cases
17
press 84
Hyphenation
18
nightpress
The Reconciler
19
atelier 9
Marginalia
20
radio zero
Sixty Hertz
21
B/00 — the handle
MOWGLI
The handle came from a shell prompt and never left. Everything here runs on somebody else's machines anyway — servers in a rack, pages that belong to other people, archives that grow whether or not anyone is watching.
mowgli@jungle:~$whoami
mowgli — full stack, mostly the back
mowgli@jungle:~$pwd
/dev/jungle
mowgli@jungle:~$ls ~/work
watchtower the-long-port vector-room
quarry nightly
mowgli@jungle:~$ps aux | grep legacy
php 7.4 still running, still paying
mowgli@jungle:~$cat /etc/motto
"migrate it while it is awake"
mowgli@jungle:~$▋
jungle plate — drop a photo
The workshop
no clip wired up
Tape 01
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mowgli@ssh ~ % ▋
2026.08 — another endpoint off PHP, nobody noticed
2026.07 — teaching the archive to answer questions
2026.06 — a crawler that finally backs off politely
A press run, in the other sense.
seeded from today's date — same level for everyone, until midnight
← → run · space jump · esc quitbest kept on your machine
MowgliSSH — MowgliSSH — MowgliSSH — MowgliSSH — MowgliSSH — MowgliSSH —
MOWGLISSHsubject 0x0000
file opened 00:00:00subject was not informed
THE VISITOR
—
what you took
- scrolled
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- that's
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- changed your mind
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- time on premises
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- cards moved
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- paper shifted
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- most molested
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- …picked up
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- covers touched
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- links clicked
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- address hovered
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- address clicked
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- clicks that hit nothing
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- press runs started
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- time in the arcade
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- best distance
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- times trimmed
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- time actually reading
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the rules
- 01you do not talk about the framework
- 02you DO NOT talk about the framework
- 03if someone says "just use React", the build is over
- 04as many divs as necessary
- 05one page at a time
- 06no shoes, no analytics
- 07if this is your first visit, you have to drag something—
hello, friend.
you have been here —. you picked up— — and never opened it. you hovered the address — times.
i am going to make this easy.
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