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Tinkering with new tech, shipping updates, and writing up what I find along the way.

Nathan Schram · Australia

Dog Dad, indie maker, curious soul, traveller. Building simple apps that solve my problems. DMs open for testers 🐻

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Normi the dog holding a ball in his mouth at the park, alongside a phone screen showing Telegram chats with multiple AI coding agents running simultaneously

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31 March 2026 · 16 min read ·

untether remote-coding

I voice-code from my phone while walking my dog

I dictate coding tasks to Claude Code via Telegram voice notes while walking my dog. Voice input is 4x faster than typing on a phone.

Bar chart showing D1 write operations spiking to 1.42 billion in January 2026, with two colour-coded bug periods highlighted

18 March 2026 · 17 min read ·

cloudflare d1

My $5/month Cloudflare bill hit $4,868 because of an infinite loop

A bug in my Cloudflare Worker wrote 3.45 billion rows to D1 in 4 days. The bill hit $4,868 on a $5/month account. Here's what went wrong and what I built after.

Terminal listing MCP server processes across Claude Code sessions — each session spawns about 14 servers, consuming over 100 MB each

8 March 2026 · 18 min read ·

dogfooding testing

Dogfooding found 22 bugs my 1,548 tests missed

Dogfooding Untether and PitchDocs daily — and Outlook Assistant when the task calls for it — found 22 bugs that 1,548 automated tests missed. The bugs that matter live in the transitions between states — sleeping and waking, busy and stuck, present and away.

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I voice-code from my phone while walking my dog

My $5/month Cloudflare bill hit $4,868 because of an infinite loop

Dogfooding found 22 bugs my 1,548 tests missed

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