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How I Deployed 90+ AI Agents with Zero Repetitive Clicking

I built 90+ specialized AI agents on Open WebUI. A bash script handles auth, knowledge upload, profile image, and model creation — no manual UI work.

18 min read · March 28, 2026

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Building a Professional Demo Site for a School in One Weekend
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Building a Professional Demo Site for a School in One Weekend

I rebuilt a school's outdated website as a polished React demo — photo gallery, video montage, and GitHub Pages deploy. Here's the full build.

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Building a Video Intelligence Pipeline: Scene Detection + Audio + Face Recognition
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Building a Video Intelligence Pipeline: Scene Detection + Audio + Face Recognition

Three standalone tools — SaySee, Cairn, and Tactical ID — combine into a full video intelligence pipeline. Here's how they fit together.

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Backups Are Boring Until You Lose Everything — Here's My 5-Tier System

I built a 5-tier backup system for my workstation: project files, AI config, API tools, system config, and evidentiary archives. Here's the architecture.

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Documentary Beat Indexing — 17-Class Scene Taxonomy with FCP XML
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Documentary Beat Indexing — 17-Class Scene Taxonomy with FCP XML

ScorsAI classifies documentary footage into 17 scene types and generates Final Cut Pro XML markers — turning hours of raw footage into a searchable beat sheet.

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Audio Fingerprinting at Scale: Building a 5-Second Ambient Sound Classifier

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SaaS Billing with Stripe — Checkout, Webhooks, Tier Sync
Professional web development 18 min

SaaS Billing with Stripe — Checkout, Webhooks, Tier Sync

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