Lab R&D · ALWAYS ON

The lab.

A running, honest log of what I'm poking at — some shipped, some half-built, some just reading. This is the curiosity Forzateks runs on.

6 threads · 2 shipped · 4 open

  • Reading · Frontier Jun 2026

    Post-quantum crypto in the SASE stack

    Watching post-quantum key exchange work its way into the SD-WAN and SSE products I configure every day. The morning NIST's algorithms become a checkbox in someone's tunnel config, I want to already understand the failure modes — not be reading the changelog for the first time.

  • Shipped · Web Jun 2026

    A reusable trip-journal engine

    The parchment scrapbook the travel pages run on — taped polaroids, hand-drawn route stickers, a swinging flag, all data-driven. A new country is a few lines of config. Built it for one trip; it turned into a little system.

    See it
  • Tinkering · AI May 2026

    An onboarding assistant for non-technical owners

    A Claude-powered helper that walks a business owner through their first cloud workflows in plain English. Less chatbot, more patient colleague who never sighs. Figuring out how much hand-holding is helpful before it becomes a crutch.

  • Reading · Blockchain May 2026

    On-chain provenance for supply chains

    After building an export-desk site for a medical supplier, I keep poking at a question: what would a tamper-evident batch-and-expiry ledger actually buy a real logistics operation — beyond the buzzword? Mostly trying to separate the genuine use case from the hype.

  • Tinkering · Web Apr 2026

    How far a small stack really goes

    Turning a logistics team's spreadsheets into a live ops hub — diesel anomalies, commissions, cash variance — on nothing heavier than Supabase and vanilla JS. Seeing exactly where the seams appear before you actually need 'real' infrastructure. (Spoiler: further than people think.)

  • Shipped · Web Jun 2026

    This site's field-notes design system

    Design tokens, three signature components, and a restraint budget enforced by a verification script so it can't drift into clutter. The thing you're reading right now is the experiment.

    You’re in it

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