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September 29, 20262 min read

An AI Assistant That Refuses Half Your Ideas

cfadmin is an AI helper with one hard rule: everything must run on Cloudflare. Ask for a server and it says no — then hands you the better design. The refusals are the feature.

September 15, 20262 min read

The Database Graybeards Are Retiring. This Is the Backup Plan.

Big companies still run on decades-old Oracle databases — while the vendor looks away and the experts retire. A $4,799 agent suite preserves the knowledge and watches the estate.

September 1, 20262 min read

Every Country on Earth, Rated 1 to 5

Click any nation and see where its government sits from left to right — scored by an AI judge, with confidence and probabilities shown, uncertainty never hidden.

August 18, 20262 min read

Tollbooths for Bots

Every public API here charges AI agents a flat five dollars a day — humans never see it. One rule, learned once, enforced honestly, with the holes written down.

August 4, 20262 min read

Map Your Perimeter Before Attackers Do

xwllz is a free tool that lists everything your company exposes to the internet — subdomains, certificates, email defenses — starting with zero API keys.

July 21, 20262 min read

Free for Humans, $5 for Robots

A memorial page streams a late musician's album free to people — and charges AI agents five dollars, verified on the blockchain. Grief, dignity, and real cryptography.

July 7, 20262 min read

The Startup That Grows by Hiring

Elder care has an upside-down insight: the caregiver is the product, so growth means creating jobs, not cutting them. A franchise network could fund it.

June 23, 20262 min read

A Paywall That Locks Nothing

The Pay page takes crypto tips from humans and 402 payments from AI agents — and unlocks absolutely nothing. It is a working demo of honest machine payments, with every limitation documented.

June 9, 20262 min read

The $3 Trillion Language Nobody Teaches Anymore

Three trillion dollars still move on COBOL every day, written by programmers nearing retirement. Someone has to keep those systems alive — that is a business.

May 26, 20262 min read

One Text Box to Rule Ten Productivity Tools

The SmartAss homepage showed ten tool panels at once and overwhelmed everyone. The fix: one box you paste anything into, and a twenty-line router that files it to the right tool.

May 12, 20262 min read

30MB of Sanctions XML, One Search Box

America's sanctions list is a 30-megabyte XML dump. The OFAC snapshot turns it into a fast page: type a country, see the people, companies, ships, and programs tied to it.

April 28, 20262 min read

I Put the Entire U.S. Budget on One Web Page

The federal budget — debt, spending, income, interest rates — as live charts on a single page with no server, no account, and no API key.

David Stalane
April 14, 20262 min read

I build everything in the open. Take the tour.

stalane.com is a public workshop: every side project is live, clickable, and free to poke at. Here is what lives there, and why building in public beats a slide deck.

David Stalane

Notes on building software in the open, from the lab behind stalane.com

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