Build Log · Newest first
What I've built. What broke.
I document every session in three lines: what I built, what broke, and the one thing worth passing on.
Day 14 · Sat 7 Nov 2026
This site, grown from one page to four
- Built
- Home, About, Build Log and a working contact form, on the same free hosting as Day 1.
- Broke
- My own headline. I wrote "15 years selling big deals", read it back and hated it.
- Lesson
- If a line makes you wince, you won't say it out loud either. Rewrite it before you build around it.
Day 8 · Sun 1 Nov 2026
A family dashboard on a Raspberry Pi
- Built
- A small computer behind the TV that shows our family calendar and the week's dinners, changed from my phone.
- Broke
- The install script quietly stopped halfway, and the month view was unreadable from across the room.
- Lesson
- It looked fine on the laptop. It took the real TV to see what was wrong. Ship it, stand back, fix what you actually see.
Day 7 · Sat 31 Oct 2026
An inbox triage agent for my day job
- Built
- An agent that reads my work inbox, read-only, and tells me what actually needs action today.
- Broke
- It could only see 25 emails at a time, contradicted itself on deadlines and guessed at things it didn't know.
- Lesson
- Most of its mistakes were missing context, not a weak model. Give it the least access it needs.
Day 1 · Sun 25 Oct 2026
My first web page
- Built
- One page, from a blank folder to live on the internet before breakfast.
- Broke
- The webcam, the screen recording and the GitHub sign-in, all before a line of the page existed.
- Lesson
- Day 1 is the day something goes live. Prep doesn't count.