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Jun 9, 2026

Tradingpublished

Week 6 Day 1: I Built a Prop Firm Rules Decoder in One Day (And I Don’t Even Trade)

Day 1 of PropDecoded: what it is, why I built it, and what Claude found buried in FTMO’s rulebook I’ll be honest with you: I am an outsider looking in on the prop trading world....

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Jun 8, 2026

Aipublished

Week 6: I Met a Day Trader on the Golf Course. Now I Need to Know.

I’m writing this sitting in front of Lake Okeechobee on the way home from a nice weekend. It’s beautiful out here. Isn’t it something that we can just code from wherever now. An...

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Jun 6, 2026

Aipublished

Prompt Roast: I Built a Passive Agressive Thing, and I Like It

Prompt Roast: I Built a Passive Aggressive Thing, and I Like It This post is a day late. I went golfing. I’d apologize, but I got to play a great course in tournament conditions...

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Jun 4, 2026

Humorpublished

I Built a Prompt Roast App. Please Roast Mine.

A tiny app for turning bad AI prompts into better ones, with a little public humiliation along the way. Some days, you work on the serious stuff. Some days, you build something...

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Jun 3, 2026

Aipublished

Week 5, Day 2: Everything Broke, Then Worked, Then Broke Again (Building Prompt Roast)

Last night I sat down to keep building Prompt Roast — the app that tears apart your AI prompts, files charges against them, and hands you back a fixed version. Day 1 was about g...

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Jun 1, 2026

Claudepublished

Week 5, Day 1: I Am Building a Tool That Roasts Your AI Prompts (and Fixes Them)

I have a busy week. Not the “back-to-back meetings” kind of busy — the real kind, where the hours are already spoken for before you open your laptop. So I did what any reasonabl...

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May 30, 2026

Claudepublished

Week 4, Ship Day: upSKILLed is Live (and I Learned What “Fast Enough” Means)

It’s Friday. Ship day. Week 4 of 12 is done. I spent this week building upSKILLed — a tool that generates Claude skill files for any API or CLI tool. The idea is simple: Claude...

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May 29, 2026

Aipublished

Week 4: I Spent Thursday Making Claude Smarter at Your Stack

And also fixed a missing nav link. Don’t judge me. Also, crazy off topic but such an interesting tidbit. Blue Origin New Glenn rocket explodes on pad at Cape Canaveral. What a s...

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May 28, 2026

Anthropic Claudepublished

Week 4, Day 3: Smoke Tests, a Splashier Landing Page, and Nine Holes ⛳️

Today was a day for making things presentable. The core is built. The generation works. The auth works. The My Skills page works. So today was smoke tests, polish, a couple of n...

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May 26, 2026

Claudepublished

Week 4, Day 2: It Actually Generates Now

Yesterday I said the generation “works (I think).” Today I can say it works, with confidence and receipts. I spent most of today fixing things that were broken in ways I didn’t...

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