A working
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Experience, know-how, and thoughts from solo dev with AI.
A Month of Agent Development — I Became a Creator, Not Just a Developer
If you keep getting distracted while building, that's not distraction
How to Write Instructions for an AI Agent — build-plan Format from B1 to B17
"Why does "Do B2" fail — why the agent needs the full context handed to it at once
Why Saying "Build Me an App" to AI Is Actually Slower — How to Speed Up Development with the build-plan Skill
One session = one item, dependency-aware splitting is the mechanism that creates speed
Decide First, Then Code — How the product-pipeline Skill Forces You to Spec Up Front
Even solo developers can avoid the "I have to rip this out" moment
The Secret of Skills — When Natural Language Becomes Logic
"/review is actually just a well-crafted prompt" — 4 levers for designing agent behavior
I Was Planning a Brand Site When I Finally Understood What Slowloop Was
slowloop lab — the site doesn't exist yet, but the things running underneath it do
I picked the name slowloop because I wanted to keep going, just slower
I asked AI for a brand name, and the philosophy came out first
I Read the Terms of Service After Building the Whole Thing
Building a stock portfolio app — KIS API regulation pitfalls and a pivot
5 Mistakes Solo Developers Keep Making — Things I Only Learned After Living Through Them
Constraints come before features. If the direction is wrong, the more you build, the further you stray.
When Implementation Becomes Free — The Bottleneck Moved Up
Redefining my role as a developer, felt firsthand while building with AI
Why You Shouldn't Integrate Your Tools — The Context Spine Idea
Context evaporates at every planning→development→deployment handoff. The fix wasn't tool integration.
LLM Meets You for the First Time Every Session — That's Why Documentation Is Strategy
When background explanations started piling up like a tax, I started writing CLAUDE.md
How to eliminate git conflicts in Obsidian mobile — Pull strategy HARD reset
If you only read on mobile, two settings are all it takes to stop conflicts entirely
The Agent Control Code I Wrote Myself Was Already in Claude Code
If you miss AI tool updates, you'll reinvent the wheel twice
From Idea to Build Plan — How I Automated 8 App Design Documents with AI
Revealing the product-pipeline workflow validated through myWiki's design process
Why I Break Big Tasks into Phases — When I Realized All My Tools Look the Same
The pattern I use every time I do big work with AI — why I divide into phases and put gates at the boundaries
How I Built My Mom's Online Art Museum in 6 Hours
The day AI built a gallery without permission — and how we shipped it for real
You Don't Need to Code to Build an App — Everything a Non-Developer Needs to Know in the Age of Natural Language Logic
4 real takeaways from a 10-year developer who actually built apps using only natural language
I Built a Second Brain Because I Hated Watching My AI Conversations Disappear
What a month of AI chats left behind — why I split raw and wiki
I wanted it, it didn't exist, so I started building it myself
I dug through dozens of PKM apps, found nothing, and after an OAuth headache decided to build it myself
How I Made My Second Brain Manage Itself
Building Claude Code automation for the second wiki — how ingest, scrub, digest, and hooks fit together
AI Wrote It, But It's My Story — Using a Second Brain as a Blog Engine
How raw conversations stored in a wiki become blog posts
My Planning AI and Coding AI Were Working in Silos — So I Started Connecting Their Context
The problem of context breaking between agents, and how I solved it with a second brain
I Built a Discord Bot Because I Hated Losing Ideas on My Phone
Automatic capture is the only way to miss nothing — why I designed a dedicated entry point for my thoughts
What I Learned Building a Stock Portfolio App with AI Agents
Worktree pipelines, multi-agent experiments, KIS API pitfalls, and getting blocked by regulations after nearly finishing the whole thing
3 Painful Lessons from Deploying a Stock App on a Home Server
iptime CAA block, DB port conflict, stale manual checkout — things you only learn the hard way
Building a Loop Where Discord Messages Automatically Land in Your Wiki — hermes-discord Story
A loop where ideas thrown from your phone pile up in the second wiki, built with a single ops repo
How I Run Two AI Agents Together — hermes and Claude Code Role Split in Practice
hermes as the chat entry point, Claude Code for coding and wiki editing — a role structure I figured out running both on my home server
Running Multiple Apps on One Home Server — Single Caddy + web_edge Pattern, Practical Guide
How I run a stock app, an art gallery, and a bot on the same server — sharing the full setup
- 01 The Secret of Skills — When Natural Language Becomes Logic
- 02 Why Saying "Build Me an App" to AI Is Actually Slower — How to Speed Up Development with the build-plan Skill
- 03 How to Write Instructions for an AI Agent — build-plan Format from B1 to B17
- 04 Decide First, Then Code — How the product-pipeline Skill Forces You to Spec Up Front
- 01 I Built a Second Brain Because I Hated Watching My AI Conversations Disappear
- 02 My Planning AI and Coding AI Were Working in Silos — So I Started Connecting Their Context
- 03 I Built a Discord Bot Because I Hated Losing Ideas on My Phone
- 04 AI Wrote It, But It's My Story — Using a Second Brain as a Blog Engine
- 05 I wanted it, it didn't exist, so I started building it myself
- 06 How I Made My Second Brain Manage Itself