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I build things. Then I write down how.
A practical, no-fluff record of how I build software, tools, and products — mistakes, decisions, and the parts nobody puts in the tutorial.
Build Logs
How We Shipped an AI-Literacy Game in About a Day
We built and shipped a playable AI-literacy game for teens in about a day, using a team of AI agents each assigned one role. Here's the actual process — plan, build, blind review, two real bugs, and the human call to ship.
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Getting Started with Claude Code: Your First Session
Install Claude Code, run it in your own repo, and complete one small real task — with the reviewing habit and project instructions file that make it safe to trust.
Jul 5, 2026
How We Deploy: Railway, Staging, and One Branch to Production
Set up a Railway project with separate staging and production environments mapped to git branches, commit your deploy config instead of leaving it in a dashboard, and keep a human on the promotion decision.
Jul 5, 2026
Primers — the building blocks
Short, single-concept reads. Enter cold; link out to the lessons that use them.
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How we built real projects, start to finish — decisions, bugs, and tradeoffs.
Step-by-step and hands-on. You build the thing yourself.
One concept, explained cleanly — the building blocks the lessons lean on.
What a tool is and why we reach for it.
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