Posts tagged “build-in-public”

My Workout System Is an iPhone App Now. Claude and I Built It in a Day.

From a blog post about talking to my phone at the gym to a TestFlight beta with subscriptions, in one working day. Here is the receipt.

Six weeks ago I wrote about logging every workout by talking to Claude. Yesterday I asked Claude to turn that system into a real iOS app. By dinner it was on TestFlight with working subscriptions. This is what actually happened, including the parts where Apple's paperwork fought back.

I've Been Wondering About a Plane for 40+ Years. Claude Found It, and Now I'm Logging All of Them.

Claude found the exact Pan Am 747 I flew on in 1984, down to the tail number. Now I'm logging every flight in BlackOps so none of it disappears again.

I carried one airplane around in my head for forty years. Here is how I used Claude to find it, and BlackOps to log it so the question never comes back.

Sorties: Fire Real Actions Straight From Your AI Chat

Set up an action once. Fire it by name from anywhere, even your phone.

A Sortie turns a sentence in your AI chat into a real action. Fix a bug, message your team, fire an automation. Set it up once, fire it by name from anywhere, and your keys never touch the conversation.

Einstein Didn't Remember the Speed of Light

The Cognitive Offloading Revolution & Al Assistance.

Einstein famously said he didn't bother remembering things he could look up. Thirty years into this career, I think I finally understand what he meant.

I Was Trying to Buy a Truck. I Accidentally Discovered the Future of Note-Taking.

I spent an hour researching a truck purchase with AI. At the end I hadn't written a single thing down. Then I asked BlackOps to log it. That one moment changed how I think about what this product actually is.

Stop Giving Claude a Static Doc. Give It a Brain.

Brain turns any Obsidian folder into a living knowledge base any agent can read, any agent can update, and you can have as many as you need.

Brain is a new BlackOps feature that compiles an entire Obsidian folder into a single context note your Claude Projects can read through MCP. No RAG. No scripts. Just everything Claude needs, in one place.

You Don't Have a Brand Problem. You Have a Systems Problem.

A millionaire copywriter laid out 6 psychology principles behind personal brands that convert. Every one maps to something BlackOps already does.

A millionaire copywriter laid out the psychology behind personal brands that actually make money. Every principle she named is a systems problem. Here is what that system looks like.

Everyone's Mad Anthropic Killed OpenClaw Access. I'm Not.

I spent a month debugging it every morning. The people crying loudest aren't the ones who were actually using it.

I bought the Mac mini. I posted that it was the future. A month later I was waking up every morning to fix something that broke overnight. Here's what I learned.