Keep the signal
Ideas and useful context land somewhere durable without interrupting the work.
An independent workshop · Ideas, experiments & rabbit holes
Stay curious.
Make things.
A workshop for curious ideas. Practical experiments, unexpected rabbit holes, and useful things learned along the way. AI is one tool in the workshop, not the whole story.
Now / October 2026
Project 01 · Active · Real use
On the workbench
Solenne
Turning a collection of AI and automation experiments into workflows I can actually use. The practical question: can an AI system help me find, decide, create, and document without becoming another layer of work?
● Active — testing against real workflows
Framework / Pi
Personal Infrastructure
Pi is the system underneath what I am trying to build. Not productivity — continuity. It is how captured context becomes useful work instead of disappearing into another app, chat, or forgotten folder.
Build context
Notes, files, projects, and decisions become easier to recover and relate.
Use the system
AI and automation help produce real outputs, not just more organization.
Compound the work
Lessons, artifacts, and operating knowledge remain useful after the session ends.
The workbench / projects
Things on the workbench
Some experiments are practical. Some are just interesting. The point is to make things and see what holds up.
AI coordination that earns its keep.
Exploring how ChatGPT, Notion, files, and connected workflows can behave like a useful operating layer without hiding the operator from the decisions.
Small automation, specific job.
A Python-based Notion summarizer used to learn what should be automated, what should stay manual, and what is not worth maintaining.
Continuity over productivity theater.
A portability-first approach to keeping context, decisions, and useful assets accessible across tools and over time.
The lab notebook itself.
This site is where the projects, field notes, and lessons are distilled into something another builder can actually browse.
Field notes / In brief
Things worth figuring out.
Short discoveries, useful lessons, and notes from experiments. Some are quick observations; others grow into longer stories.
Read the last line first.
A wall of traceback text is a map. Start at the bottom, find the actual error, then work backward only as far as you need.
The operator owns the memory.
Persistence lives in files, systems, and process — not in the hope that one chat window remembers everything.
Integration debt compounds fast.
Every new connection adds maintenance and failure points. The discipline is often deciding what not to connect.
Explore the short notes by topic, or follow an idea back to the project that sparked it.
Browse Field Notes →About / the person behind it
A workshop, not a pitch deck.
Spyderwell is my corner of the internet, based in Tennessee. I came back to technology through curiosity: first figuring things out, then building things I once would have needed a team or a textbook to attempt.
I learn by making things. AI, websites, small automations, books, practical projects, and unexpected rabbit holes are all fair game. The useful parts become projects and field notes.
Solenne and Personal Infrastructure are some of those experiments—not the definition of everything I might explore here.
Say hello
Have an interesting question?
Found something worth exploring, built something clever, or have a better way to do something? I'd like to hear about it.