shipping

New Boom TLD secured!! Will share later!

At least three times this afternoon I caught myself giggling at BOOM or if anyone actually cares about a headless shareable room builder in this AI era, especially one named Boom. And is it boom, Boom, or BOOM?

My new rules for picking side quest domains? No more than 10 minutes and 10 dollars.

Successfully recorded my first Boom video, 5 minutes, a little bit salesy, and all on my 2nd take. When creating anything, we are our own worst judge. The inner critic can rage. Ironically there’s that clip going around Twitter that screams the complete opposite. The ultra successful have zero introspection. Well, good for them I suppose.

The good news about whatever side quest you’re building → this is the worst it’ll ever be.

Raincouver is going off and I’ve carved out a few days to get my to-do list checked off. Let’s gooo

This morning I built attempted to build a mini tool that scrapes various web pages, reports back fonts, takes screenshots, and produces those results into a single page. Something I was expecting to crank out within 30-45 minutes turned into a 2.5 hour adventure where I eventually trashed the project.

Two minor frustrations:

1. HTML files produced by app kept crashing Claude. Regardless of working in Cowork, Command Prompt, or the web based version it would time out and run out of context. It’s very peculiar bc the HTML page rendered properly within Safari and Chrome but Claude just wasn’t having any part of it.
2. Hallucination. It flat out lied, ignored instructions, told me it scraped fresh content when it leveraged previous data.

These are all part of the learning process, right? AI build reps!

What else?

• published v1 blog post draft The Plus Exchange
• learning more on ai harnesses and chunking
• had an agent review 150 designer applications
• hoping to ship a mini app tonight

Happy friday

Blasted the newsletter yesterday, and heard back from a few friends with life updates. Andre shared this, which if the AI quality is true, is fairly astonishing and frightening

In a local friend tech iMessage group, rumours confirmed Anthropic is opening, or at least hiring people in Vancouver! Sort by BC - anthropic.com/careers/jobs

It’s monsoon, rainy af… worked super late last night, trying to ship v0 of new landing pages, but ai copy never feels human, or like my tone of voice. Rewriting the copy manually, and will a/b test it.

Came across this hilarious portfolio with lol CTA hover -> iamarnob.com

Don’t shoot the messenger: besides manus, the AI wave in Singapore and SE Asia is moving at roughly 30% of North America’s pace.

today / wip

• spending 20-30 minutes per day in Figma, rebuilding graphic design muscles
• looking for new swipe file systems (help?)
• invited a few friends to Ship10, and despite the inner cringe, I’m committing to writing daily logs alongside it, at least for the next 10 days
• prototyping a mini app, hoping to ship / send that by monday am