LittleCloud

Things I build in my off-hours.

I'm Michael. Systems administrator by trade, strongest in Windows and PowerShell, learning Linux and Python and studying cloud computing alongside full time work. LittleCloud is the umbrella over everything I build for myself and my friends. Nothing here is for sale.

Building now

LittleCloud In build
Email organization and a personal assistant. It sorts a busy inbox, keeps the calendar honest, and handles the dull coordination that fills a week. It proposes, I approve.
WoW Forever In build
Addons and guild boards for my friends. Tools that get used on raid night, by people who will tell me immediately when they break.

How it gets built

I build these with AI, which is the point rather than a shortcut. I came up through systems administration, and the way I am learning to build software is by shipping things I then have to depend on. The model writes a lot of the code. I do the deciding, and I am the one who has to live with it.

Where it gets latitude is a question of reversibility, not trust. Anything I review before it matters, it can draft freely. Anything that runs unattended and would be awkward to undo is written as plain code that does the same thing every time.

Everything is specified in writing before it is built, and every decision worth the name is recorded with its reasoning and with what would reverse it. Nothing sends, spends or deletes without me.

Before this

HEARTH Retired
Home and vehicle maintenance. Ran in production for a long stretch, then retired deliberately. Its job comes back as part of LittleCloud.
SAGE Retired
Morning briefings, habit streaks, and an honest review of how the week actually went. Retired for the same reason, and on purpose.
Gatehouse Shelved
Whitelisting and onboarding for game servers. Finished at design, never built.

Both of the retired ones worked. Taking something apart once it has told you what it needed to is a better outcome than letting it rot behind a login page.