Diary

A daily log of building with AI. Newest first.

Day 8: The Business Side

Diving deep into App Vitals strategy, planning a real marketing site, and the moment an AI read 6 months of business context in 10 minutes.

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Day 7: The Meta Game

Building dodizzle.com in 11 minutes, diving into GA4 analytics for the first time, shipping SEO content across 4 games, and the strange recursion of building a site to document building things.

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Day 6: The Solitaire Empire

From 1 game to 4 while skiing Mammoth Mountain in a blizzard. Tri Peaks in 8 minutes, Spider Solitaire, Klondike, 6 domains, and the power of a system that ships without you.

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Days 4-5: Zero to Live in 48 Hours

Golf Solitaire goes from engine to deployed game in 48 hours. Polish, accessibility, animations, SEO, mobile layout, and the gap between 'working' and 'shipped.'

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Day 3: From Idea to Code in One Session

How Golf Solitaire went from brainstorm to scaffolded codebase in a single session. Sub-agents, vanilla TypeScript, and the power of a good planning doc.

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Day 2: The Brainstorm Pipeline

Building an idea-to-project pipeline with Sully using the ACR framework (Autonomy, Complexity, Reward) for scoring and filtering ideas.

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Day 1: Teaching Sully My Business

Connecting Sully to Toggl for time tracking, building persistent memory context, and discovering the compound effect of a contextual AI assistant.

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Day 0: I Built an AI Assistant Named Sully

How I set up a persistent AI assistant with personality on a Raspberry Pi using OpenClaw and Claude. Meet Sully — wicked smaht, from Southie, and ready to work.

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