FEATURED

Sep 2026 · Carmelo Santana

Alpaca Bot

A privately hosted AI chat for WordPress. Talk to a model you host — Ollama or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint — give it tools, and keep every conversation in your own database.

Streaming chat in wp-admin · private conversations · per-user token caps.

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Alpaca Bot chat screen in wp-admin with streamed replies and per-reply receipts

Alpaca Bot Settings, Models tab with per-model overrides

An Alpaca Bot reply that used the draft_post tool

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Practical help for your next build

Help with PHP, WordPress, and AI integration, shaped by 15+ years of production work. We can start with a new build, an existing problem, or support for your team.

Build

AI-native PHP & WordPress

Add agents, MCP servers, and automation to your PHP or WordPress app, with a clear scope and support from planning through deployment.

AI agents & MCP servers wired into your app
LLM features for your WordPress workflows
Automation that removes manual busywork

Project-based engagement

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Fix

WordPress Rescue

Site down, hacked, slow, or stuck after an update? We’ll start with triage and agree on the scope and price before repairs begin.

Hacked-site cleanup & hardening
White-screen / failed-update recovery
Performance & database tuning

Free triage · fixed-price fix

Rescue my site

Lead

Fractional Technical Lead

Technical direction, code reviews, and hands-on PHP and AI support for your team, a few days each month.

Architecture reviews & technical direction
Code standards and mentoring for your team
A few focused days a month, predictable cost

Monthly retainer

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Not sure which fits? Book a free 15-minute call and we'll figure out a useful next step together.

Paid apps

buy once · own it · updates included

HAFMOComing soon

A live ASCII face for your stream — no rig, no VTuber pipeline, just you in glorious terminal glow.

HAFMO turns your webcam into a real-time ASCII avatar. Face tracking, swappable expressions, a modular character mode, CRT effects, and curated Lospec palettes — all in a lightweight desktop app that drops straight into OBS.

macOSWindowsLinux

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next release

More tools in development at Made in Newburgh.

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Ventures

Products and platforms I build and run.

Latest

2026·Automotive

vctrs.io

AI platform for automotive dealers — own your data, track vendor costs, and centralize operations. A joint venture (Vctrbase).

AutomotiveAISaaS

Beta

2026·AI

coquibot.ai

Managed hosting for Coqui agents — your own AI agent ready in 60 seconds, with secure sandboxing and full API access.

AISaaSHosting

2026·AI Consulting

8.care

Ethical AI consulting and 1:1 workshops — responsible adoption, AI literacy, and agent development, approached with intention.

AI ConsultingEthicsWorkshops

2025·Cannabis

Budson Valley

A cannabis directory for New York's Hudson Valley. Find local dispensaries, products, and events.

CannabisDirectoryNext.js

Client & enterprise work

Enterprise platforms and production sites for national brands, established local businesses, and funded teams.

2026·Python

Zoltar Predicts

CUDA/GPU acceleration for a financial market-analysis pipeline — Python, MLX, and NumPy/SciPy performance work.

PythonCUDAGPU

2024·WordPress

Antique Associates

Legacy PHP e-commerce migrated to WordPress — importing thousands of antique products for a West Townsend dealer.

WordPressPHPE-commerce

2025·Next.js

Veilbreak.ai

Full-stack platform for open AI-consciousness research — custom auth, an MCP server, and a REST API for a global member base. The Code of Reality data explorer offers searchable, filterable experiment and protocol tables.

Next.jsSupabaseMCP

2023·WordPress

AT&T Specials

Promotional campaign website showcasing AT&T's fiber internet offers with custom checkout integration. Lead development during my time at Updater, featuring WordPress backend + React components for streamlined lead generation, qualification and onboarding processes.

WordPressReactLead Generation

2022·React

Azelis Search

React powered UI paired with a custom WordPress search API for a global chemical distributor.

ReactREST APIWordPress

2012·DealerX

WorldAuto CPO

WordPress powered nation wide automotive inventory platform designed to streamline the automotive retail experience by empowering dealers, manufacturers, and consumers. Featured nationwide dealer inventory search with interactive maps and location-based filtering for certified pre-owned vehicles.

DealerXAutomotiveEnterprise

Projects

Open-source AI, automation, and developer tools — agents, CLIs, MCP servers, and Composer packages I build in the open and keep shipping.

Latest

2026·AI

Music Man Engine

Headless song generation you run yourself: a rough idea goes in, a local LLM writes the lyrics and style, and your own ComfyUI music model renders the audio. One dependency-free Python file, plus editable song recipes, reusable "band" sound signatures, and mastering. Free download.

AIPythonCLI

2026·Bash

BubbleScreen

Featherweight TrueNAS "screensaver" — a kiosk container that seizes the server's physical console and paints a live htop + nvtop dashboard (CPU, RAM, temps, and NVIDIA GPU), with smart GPU-aware view switching and DDC/CI display sleep. Idle footprint under ~50 MB.

BashDockerTrueNAS

2026·AI

BLUF

A Claude Code output style that leads with the conclusion and cuts filler — shipped with a reproducible eval harness that measures the output-token reduction and the cost tradeoff. In chat and prose it uses fewer output tokens; in agentic coding it reads tighter but bills more.

AIClaude CodeEvals

2026·AI

Coqui

A hackable PHP 8.4 agent runtime — a personal operating system for AI work, with persistent memory, model routing, and a Markdown-defined skills registry.

AIAgentsPHP

2026·PHP

CraftKeeper

Open-source Minecraft server control plane. Every mutation is a proposed, approved, audited operation — plugins, configs, and RCON — driven from a mounted server directory rather than the Docker socket.

PHPLaravelReact