What I'm Doing Now

Posted on Oct 22, 2025 • 4 min read

What I’m Doing Now

Updated: October 22, 2025

This is a now page, inspired by Derek Sivers. It’s what I’d tell a friend I haven’t seen in a year.

🚀 Current Projects

1. This Blog (dominatedbycline.github.io)

Building a platform to document my journey with AI-assisted development.

Status: ✅ Live and growing

Recent additions:

  • Comprehensive beginner guides (Part 1 & 2)
  • 12+ site features (RSS, analytics, comments, etc)
  • GoatCounter analytics
  • Giscus comments

Next: More tutorial content, case studies

2. EventFlow (Event Planning Platform)

Full-stack event planning app with AI integration. Built in 2 weeks to solve my own chaos.

Status: 🔨 96% complete (Caroline AI type-safe upgrade done! ✨)

Recent breakthroughs (Week 2):

  • Caroline AI type-safe upgrade - Pydantic schemas, LLM JSON mode enforcement
  • 87.5% accuracy on messy, interrupted, conflicting meeting notes
  • Extraction review workflow - Planner approves before database commit
  • Traceability system - Excerpt + justification for every field extracted
  • Auth system - Added login/register (rookie oversight, caught in time!)
  • 9 screenshots showing real features in action

Features working:

  • Dashboard with real-time analytics
  • Vendor marketplace (mini LinkedIn for event vendors)
  • Guest management & RSVP system
  • Calendar with full CRUD + modals + toast notifications
  • AI Inbox for client conversations → structured data
  • Caroline (Telegram bot, 47 type-safe tools)
  • Task templates (auto-generate 30+ tasks based on event type)
  • Project creation wizard with templates
  • Authentication & onboarding flow

Tech stack: FastAPI, SQLite, Pydantic, LiteLLM, Groq API, Jinja2, Bootstrap 5, Chart.js, python-telegram-bot

What’s left: Manual testing Caroline in production (tests pass, but real chaos?), deployment to production

Read the full story: EventFlow Project Page | Caroline AI Type-Safe Upgrade

3. Murder Mystery Game

A 100+ page interactive murder mystery with automated typesetting.

Status: ✅ Complete

What I learned:

  • LaTeX typesetting
  • Automated build pipelines
  • AI can be surprisingly creative
  • Complex project organization

Read about it: AI Can’t Be Creative - I Was Wrong

📚 Currently Learning

  • Pydantic + LLM JSON mode - Type-safe AI extraction (game-changer!)
  • LiteLLM - Multi-provider LLM integration
  • Testing AI systems - Progressive difficulty levels for reliability
  • FastAPI production patterns - Database migrations, Docker, PostgreSQL
  • AI Agent workflows - Building smarter, more reliable AI assistants
  • Telegram Bot API - Caroline integration (47 type-safe tools)
  • Type safety end-to-end - LLM → Parser → API → Database
  • Hugo - Static site generators (this site!)
  • DevOps basics - Deployment, CI/CD, proper workflows

📖 Currently Reading

Tech:

  • Pydantic documentation (type-safe AI is fascinating!)
  • LiteLLM guides (multi-provider LLM magic)
  • FastAPI production patterns (Docker, PostgreSQL, deployment)
  • AI agent frameworks (smolagents, testing methodologies)

Non-tech:

  • Dark romance novels (you probably don’t care hihi 🖤)
  • Dark fantasy series (escapism from debugging sessions)

🎯 Focus Areas

Right now I’m focused on:

  1. Creating helpful content - Guides that actually help beginners
  2. Building in public - Sharing the messy reality of projects
  3. Learning by doing - Real projects > tutorials
  4. AI-assisted development - Pushing what’s possible with AI tools

💭 Thinking About

  • Making LLMs reliable for production - Type safety, validation, traceability
  • Testing AI-extracted data - Automated tests vs real-world chaos (the scary part!)
  • Building trust in AI systems - Confidence scores, excerpts, justifications
  • AI for chaotic brains - EventFlow works for me because it solves my own chaos
  • Next project: Interior Design App - Integrate with EventFlow in the future (event styling + venue design)
  • Nobody’s teaching impact - Architecture wisdom that saved weeks of mistakes
  • How to make technical content more accessible
  • The intersection of ADHD and coding (ADHD = advantage with AI tools!)
  • Building sustainable learning habits with AI

🎨 Side Interests

  • Writing - Making complex things understandable
  • Design - Learning visual design basics
  • Productivity - Systems that actually work for ADHD brains
  • Open Source - Contributing where I can

📫 Want to Connect?

❌ What I’m NOT Doing Right Now

(Being realistic about capacity)

  • Job hunting (focusing on learning)
  • Freelancing (not yet)
  • Multiple new projects (finishing what I started!)
  • Social media posting (beyond GitHub)

This page gets updated whenever something major changes. Think of it as a snapshot of my current priorities.

Last update: October 22, 2025

Latest: Caroline AI type-safe upgrade complete! EventFlow now 96% feature-complete with 9 screenshots showing real progress. Testing phase begins.