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Notes from the work.
The hub for how I actually build with AI. Claude Code and Anthropic tools sit next to real work here, doing the heavy lifting while I stay in the loop on the decisions. Practical, grounded, and honest about what works.
- Aug 2026 Planning a Family Trip With Claude Every fact came from my own confirmation PDFs, and everything that could go stale got looked up. What made it useful was knowing the difference: a transit program I'd never have found, a museum that had quietly closed, and a forecast it couldn't verify and wouldn't invent. Building with AI
- Aug 2026 Running a Travel Softball Season With Claude Same tools I use to build software: MCP servers, files as source of truth, an instructions file, human approval on the one path that matters. The domain is a 16U travel softball team. It works better than it has any right to. Building with AI
- Jul 2026 Salesforce Released an MCP Server. I Used It to Cut a Marketing Cloud Build in Half. Salesforce shipped an official MCP server, so I pointed Claude at a real IP warming solution in my Marketing Cloud org. It read the live schema, recommended simplifications, and helped me cut the moving parts roughly in half. Here is what that actually looked like. Building with AI
- Jul 2026 Close Enough: The Calorie Log I'll Actually Keep My health database could see everything except what I ate. Nutrition was the one input I had to enter by hand, so it was the one I kept abandoning. Here's how I connected Lose It to my data warehouse by talking to it, and why logging something close beats logging nothing perfectly. Building with AI
- Jul 2026 Building Reply All: A Workplace RPG on a Stack That Costs Nothing I wanted to find the edge of what I could build with Claude and the stack I already had. I never found it. I found a game instead. Building with AI
- Jul 2026 Using Anthropic Fable Efficiently Fable is Anthropic's new frontier tier, and it's astonishingly good. The fastest way to burn through it is to let it write the code. The better way is to treat it like a principal engineer. Building with AI
- Jul 2026 Managing Your Context Window with Agents Parallel subagents aren't just faster. They keep raw intermediate output out of your main context window. Here's how I structured my health data warehouse around that idea. Building with AI
- Jun 2026 Adding a coaching framework to my health database The dashboard was full. The question it couldn't answer: so what do I actually do? Here's how I added Peter Attia's Medicine 3.0 framework to my health data, and what my numbers revealed the moment I did. Building with AI
- Jun 2026 My new site is live! I had writing scattered across a few different platforms for years. It existed. It just didn't have a home that felt like mine. Building with AI
- Jun 2026 Getting More from Claude Code The best sessions aren't the longest ones. Efficiency in Claude Code isn't just a cost concern. It's a quality one. Building with AI
- Jun 2026 Building Current Recovery Score: My First iOS App I wanted to understand my health data better, so I built an app to do it. Every version has taught me something I didn't expect. Building with AI
- Apr 2026 Building the Health Dashboard No App Would Give Me Every health app shows you the same thing. I needed something different, something built around my specific data, my specific questions, and a diagnosis that changed what I was trying to measure. Building with AI
- Feb 2026 Building a Second Brain That Understands How You Work Most of what happens in a workday disappears. Not dramatically. It just fades. I built a system to stop that, and six months in, it's showing me things I wouldn't have noticed on my own. Building with AI