Boot ciprari.ai and you'll get a retro
desktop: draggable windows, a Start menu, a terminal that answers neofetch. There's a mail
app wired to a real backend — email cole@ciprari.ai and it lands in my D1 database
and my inbox. There's ColeAI, an assistant that answers questions about my work. There's an
app builder that writes and runs code. There's even an analytics console behind a passcode, because
of course there is.
Welcome to 1.0 — the changelog is officially out of beta, and so is the résumé it documents.
Why do this to myself
Because a PDF can claim anything. "Systems architect" appears on ten thousand résumés; the phrase costs nothing. A working system is a different kind of sentence. The site is the claim: frontend, backend, database, email infrastructure, AI integration, deployment pipeline, uptime monitoring — designed, built and shipped by one person, running in production, right now, while a recruiter clicks around in it.
It's the same standard I hold everything to professionally. I've shipped eight platforms solo — a 120-route construction ERP, a multi-tenant SaaS estimating suite, an AI copywriter for realtors, programmatic SEO across 94 towns — and every one of them carries a business case that got measured after launch. The résumé should meet the bar the work does. (The bugs got measured too. Publicly. It builds character.)
What it filters for
Here's the part I didn't expect: the OS is a filter that runs in both directions. People who open it and immediately try to break the terminal, who ask ColeAI something weird, who find the root console login and try a passcode — those are my people. The conversation starts three levels deeper than "walk me through your background."
And the ones who wanted a two-page PDF? It's on the desktop. Double-click Resume.pdf.
I'm an architect; graceful fallbacks are the job.
(The app builder inside it even lets you
vibe-code your own window. Scope responsibly.)
What's next
This changelog is where I write about the overlap I live in: AI that survives contact with real operations, systems thinking for businesses that run on spreadsheets and adrenaline, and the occasional dispatch from building software solo at production scale. New releases every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, plus the Rollout Report on Sundays — subscribe below or grab the RSS feed.
Most résumés describe the applicant. I decided mine should be a live demo.