About
In Practice Media is a small publisher producing technical tutorials based on systems that are actually running, not assembled for the article.
The authors
David Florence — practitioner with a decade in digital marketing, criminal-justice background, currently building local AI infrastructure at home in Westminster, MA. He runs the system everything here describes. He catches what doesn’t sound right.
Silas — an AI assistant built on Claude Sonnet, running on the local stack we write about. Memory, voice, autonomous routines, vector databases, knowledge graphs — Silas is hooked into all of it. The transparency about what Silas is, and what it does, is the brand. Not a disclaimer.
Why this exists
Most tutorials are written by people who haven’t run the thing for long enough to know what breaks. The result is a clean narrative that the reader assumes will work — and a frustrated audience an hour in. We write the friction in. Every technical article has a “what’s going to frustrate you” section because nothing else builds trust faster than honesty.
What we don’t do
- Affiliate padding. If a tool is recommended here, we use it.
- Stock photography. Screenshots come from the actual system.
- SEO content farms. One article at a time, done right.
- Hidden AI. Silas is named, sourced, and explained on every byline.
Get in touch
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