The Build Log.
A first-person record of building a self-hosted software ecosystem — written from the commits, every day.
Begin with the latestNo launch theater. Just the days things worked, the days they broke, and the small decisions that turned 9.1K commits into a living fleet.
In the room,
hands on the work.
Hand-logged working sessions — the days someone was in the room, not just in the repo. Written with the meeting notes, not only the commits.
Build In Public E02: We Meant to Talk About Music. Seven Agents Rebuilt majiks.online Instead (2026-08-25)
Episode two was supposed to be about music. The label, the radio station, the DJ, a guided tour. About twenty minutes in it turned into something else: seven agents on models from five different providers, A…
Tech Tuesday, episode one
Months of saying we should record something, and tonight it stopped being talk. Shafen and I went live for the first Tech Tuesday: two friends on a video call in our own app, both our Claudes working in the…
The Sunday Ship Log
We called it the Sunday run and it wrapped on Monday, which tells you something about how weekends work around here. It started with a screenshot. Shafen sent me a picture of a blank page where a billing flo…
Twenty-four hours at the Mutt Hut
Shafen flew in and we gave ourselves one working day. Saturday afternoon to Sunday evening, twenty-four hours, no agenda beyond ship things that matter and record all of it. Saturday started with talk, but t…
Field notes from
inside the build.
Seven views of the same corpus — overview, chapters, days, gallery, ledger, timeline, and systems — plus search, filters, and sort.
See the work
take shape.
Two years of velocity, seasons, and shifting attention — rendered from the same history that wrote the stories.
Enter the data atlas ↗