Find what you remember.
Search your chosen sources. Keep the evidence close. Alcove explores personal, business, and government search with a working private demo and public collections.
Explore AlcoveReceipts, not vibes.
Build it.
Prove it.
Ship it.
AI workflow design, tooling, and evaluation. Practical work from John Malone, with the methods and evidence out in the open.
01 / Selected work
Ideas with something to show.
Good instincts. Repeatable rules.
Patterns for building with AI, and the failure modes that make those patterns necessary.
Open the hood on GitHub.
Public source and project documentation. See what is available, what is a demo, and what is still being built.
02 / From the workshop
Notes from doing the work.
The Search Box Should Not Get an Eraser
Make information easier to find without letting an assistant quietly change the record.
I Remember the Place. The Computer Wants a Filename.
We remember where we were and who was there. Search ought to meet us there.
Leave the Missing Data in the Demo
A useful demonstration makes the gaps visible, too.
03 / Working principles
A little character. A lot of discipline.
Make claims auditable.
Paths, links, diffs, tests. If it matters, it should be checkable.
Old software instincts miss these failure modes.
Sycophancy spirals, generation addiction, phantom capability. New traps need new patterns.
Stop shipping feelings.
If the spec is vibes, the result is vibes.
Blast radius is real.
Confirmation gates and rollback paths beat good intentions after the fact.
Know when to stop.
Timeboxes and ship/stop signals beat endless polish loops.
04 / Work together
From a stuck idea to a next step.
Workflow design
Clear loops, clear handoffs, and decision points that hold up under pressure.
Tooling that lasts
Build the skills and automations your team can understand, maintain, and use.
Evaluation
Adopt the proven. Test the promising. Know when to stop.
Have something in mind?
Start with something concrete.
Tell me what you are building, what is stuck, and your timeline.