WRITTEN WHILESTILL WARM

Notes, corrections, and the occasional thing I got completely wrong in public.

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01 · Jul 21, 2026
React

I built an adaptive calculus tutor in a weekend: the interesting part isn’t the calculus

A small app about relearning something 20 years later, and why ‘practice the step you forget’ beats re-reading the answer. WhoopsLoop.com I hadn’t touched calculus in almost twe...

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02 · Jun 30, 2026
Startup

The Founders Who Built Audiences Before Products Had One Thing in Common

It wasn’t a content strategy. It was a detection habit. Pieter Levels has 700,000 Twitter followers and a portfolio generating over $3M per year. He built most of that audience...

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03 · Jun 26, 2026
Ai

Glorbie Wants to Know What You Should Post Today. And No, It’s Not Guessing.

Here’s a thing that kept happening to me while building. PostHog open in one tab. GitHub in another. Three weeks of genuinely interesting product data sitting right there. And I...

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04 · Jun 23, 2026
Programming

My AI collaborator changed the rules mid-project

Anthropic moved the safety goalposts while I was shipping. Here’s what that actually means when Claude is wired into your stack. My AI collaborator changed the rules mid-project...

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05 · Jun 21, 2026
Productivity

When ‘Fix This Code’ Looks Like an Attack

The Developer Tax Nobody Invoices I was three hours into a debugging session last week when Claude refused to help me. Not because what I was doing was dangerous. Because what I...

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06 · Jun 21, 2026
Pull Request

Pretty-PR: The one that lives on.

Tags: developer tools, open source, CLI, AI, pull requests, build in public I Shipped an App a Week Until I Found the One That Mattered…. The part where it worked The whole poin...

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07 · Jun 9, 2026
Trading

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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08 · Jun 8, 2026
Ai

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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09 · Jun 6, 2026
Ai

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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10 · Jun 4, 2026
Humor

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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What twelve weeks of building in public actually clarified
What formal CS changes about day-to-day engineering
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