Notes on AI, software craft, and the quiet art of building for the web.
I'm Theodoros. Twenty-three years building things for the internet — custom applications, e-commerce, AI tooling. I write here to think slowly in a fast industry, and to share what I learn along the way.
Helix Codex: I hid seven texts in seven works of art, and a phone can read them back
Decades after I put the brush down, I opened Helix Codex: seven works on paper where every line is a double helix carrying a hidden text. From afar a wave, up close the letters, and with a free reader app the poem comes back.
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I made a board game: Psifides, an Aegean island built tile by tile
My own board game is live at Connect Cafe: you and your friends build an Aegean island out of mosaic tiles, live or one move a day. Made for friends who are never free at the same time.
Product Launch - 4 min
Spectators at backgammon and chess, table chat that reaches your opponent, birimba done right
The arcades and internet cafés of our youth were never about the games. They were about the friend standing behind you. Connect Cafe is my way of keeping those friendships alive, and this week it got spectators and table chat.
Product Update - 5 min
AstroBaaS is open source: a self-hosted, MCP-ready CMS and backend on Astro
After about a year of work, I'm releasing AstroBaaS: a self-hosted, TypeScript-native headless CMS and backend built on Astro, with a built-in admin and an MCP server so AI agents can read and write content. Here's why I built it, what it does, and what's still missing.
Product Launch - 4 min
askTheodor is live — I hired myself an AI workforce
On 17 July 2026 I launched askTheodor: AI workers for sales, ops, research and content that run on your own machine. You hand them the job; you approve what they send. Here's the story from the builder's seat.
AI & Machine Learning - 5 min
Moltbot: The Viral 'Claude with Hands' (Formerly Clawdbot)
Meet Moltbot, the self-hosted AI agent that's taking the internet by storm. Learn about its rebrand from Clawdbot, its ability to integrate with your favorite apps, and how to get it running locally.
AI & Machine Learning - 5 min
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Selected work
A few recent things I've built.
askTheodor — a local-first AI workforce for companies of one
A desktop app that staffs a one-person company with AI workers for sales, ops, research and content. Theodor, the chief of staff, splits the work, hands it to specialists and reports back; nothing leaves the machine without your approval. It started in 2024 as a web chat with eight AI agents, and relaunched on 17 July 2026 as a native app for macOS and Windows.
AstroBaaS — Self-Hosted Headless CMS & Backend on Astro
A self-hosted, TypeScript-native headless CMS and backend built on Astro, with a content admin built in — one Node process, and an MCP server so AI agents can read and write content.
Ψηφίδες (Psifides) — a multiplayer tile-laying board game for Connect Cafe
An original tile-laying board game in the Carcassonne family, built for Connect Cafe on webcafe.gr: 1–6 players, people or bots, playing live or asynchronously with turn deadlines. The rules engine is deterministic and runs in every browser; the server stores only seeds and moves, and replays a whole match in a sandbox before it touches the leaderboard. The mosaic art is generated in code, with no image assets. First commit to launch in three days.
Helix Codex — genetic art that stores text, read back by a phone
Seven genetic works on A4 paper where the line is a double helix and every rung is one of four colours, two bits each. A Rust engine turns a text into a deterministic geometry with Reed-Solomon error correction; the same decoder, compiled to WebAssembly, runs as an offline phone app that photographs a print and returns the text letter for letter. The works, prints and commissions live at art.theodorosdimitriou.com.
What I build for clients.
Twenty-three years of shipping — most of it for businesses that needed something built properly the first time.
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AI integration & agents
Assistants and autonomous agents that do real work — including on-premise models when the data cannot leave the building.
askTheodor · MediKI · ClawdBot - 02
E-commerce platforms
Custom storefronts and the systems behind them. No templates, no page builders, when the business has outgrown them.
Οπτική Γωνία · Virtual Try-On - 03
Custom applications & MVPs
From a first working version to a system a team can run on. Architecture, build, and the unglamorous parts that keep it alive.
eChurch · VPMS · EnvVault
Have something that needs building?
I take on a small number of client projects at a time — consulting, architecture, and hands-on engineering. Tell me what you are working on, or book a call and we will talk it through.
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