A Fresh Page (Literally)
A fresh start on Ghost - self-hosted, on my own terms. Here is what is coming.
Hello again. Or, if you're new here, just: hello.
Under British Skies now lives on Ghost, self-hosted on my own server, running on my own terms. It feels appropriate. I became a British citizen in September 2025, and this year seems to be the year I start doing things properly.
A bit of context, for the uninitiated: I'm Hamed. Iranian-born, Birmingham-based, jewellery designer by trade and curious person by nature. I design pieces for Silux London, work at Mappin and Webb, and spend an alarming amount of time thinking about AI, cooking, and what it means to belong somewhere.
The four posts that existed before this one covered fragments of that life - Birmingham observations, a bit of cooking, the strange experience of navigating British bureaucracy with the patience of someone who has been through Iranian bureaucracy and therefore cannot be rattled. They were good. I liked them. They'll resurface here eventually.
But this is a fresh start, and fresh starts deserve a proper introduction.
Here's what's coming:
AI experiments, documented honestly. I've built a few things - AI agents, tools, systems - and I want to write about them in plain English. Not hype, not jargon. Just what I made, why I made it, and what actually happened when I turned it on.
Life updates, as they happen. Birmingham is a genuinely interesting city if you pay attention. I try to pay attention.
Cooking adventures. Persian food, British food, the increasingly chaotic intersection of the two. I made a saffron-infused chicken pie last month and I have thoughts.
The craft of making things. Jewellery, software, sentences. The same principles apply to all of them more than you'd think.
If any of that sounds like your sort of thing, you're in the right place. Subscribe if you like. Or just visit when the mood takes you - this isn't that kind of blog. There's no funnel, no lead magnet, no journey to optimise. Just writing, from a jeweller in Birmingham who finds the world endlessly interesting and occasionally very funny.
Right then. Let's get on with it.