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Notes from the field, on nomad life, systems, language, and what it actually takes.
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BuildingNovember 8, 20263 min
Build a 3D Keypad Hero From Your Own Brand
Click a key and the headline on your site changes. Turn your brand or a Pinterest board into a KooKo skill, describe the keypad in one prompt, then add your taste.
BuildingNovember 6, 20266 min
Microsoft Pro Badge for GitHub Copilot: The Full Guide
Microsoft now recognizes your GitHub Copilot skills from how you actually use Copilot, with no additional exam and no additional fee. How to opt in on GitHub Learn, how your level is worked out, the three levels, and where your Pro Badge shows up.
BuildingOctober 15, 20269 min
The Hero That Follows Your Cursor
One photo of me, one photo of headphones, and a few chats in Julius later there is an animated me on my portfolio that looks wherever your cursor goes. The five steps, every prompt, the sprite strip, the spring ~ and the hour she looked the wrong way.
BuildingOctober 11, 20268 min
How We Book Flights With AI Now
Madrid to Davao. The obvious search said €667, I paid €319, and three days in Provence turned out to be free. The five prompts I used, the move that was worth €189 on its own, and the fare no search engine would show me.
SystemsOctober 11, 20267 min
The Admin of Being Me
I started texting Instinct my life admin over iMessage, and every night its report lands in the dashboard I run my days from. How the handoff works, what the report looks like, and why Claude alone wasn't enough.
BuildingOctober 8, 20266 min
Connect Gmail and Google Calendar to Your Own Dashboard
I connected Gmail and Google Calendar to the dashboard I run my days from. The four pieces every Google connection needs, the two walls I hit (a script that ignored .env.local and an API that was switched off), and how to ship it without leaking it.
BuildingOctober 7, 20267 min
What My 2020 Travel Spreadsheet Told Me
I rebuilt the travel expense tracker I kept in 2020 into a dashboard. Seven trips, 294 rows, eight currencies, and one number I did not expect: 46% of it was never travel at all.
BuildingJuly 30, 20267 min
Be a Spider-Woman in Your Own City
Fifteen seconds, one continuous shot, zero cuts, swinging through Madrid at golden hour. The full video prompt, the body mechanics that stop her floating, the five timed beats, and the six lines you rewrite to move it to your city.
BuildingJuly 30, 20267 min
Turn Three Selfies Into a Photoshoot
Three phone photos from a Madrid rooftop and one long prompt produced a Spider-Woman shoot in Brooklyn. The eight blocks every prompt of mine is built from, the identity lock nobody writes, and the four lines that stop it looking like AI.
BuildingJuly 28, 20268 min
Turn Your Prompt Library Into an App
This is exactly how I built Filtr, a 24-filter photo app that generates real images, inside Higgsfield Apps with Claude connected over MCP. I never opened a code editor. Seven steps, both prompts, and the ideas worth stealing.
BuildingJuly 17, 20266 min
Build Your First AI App This Week
Connect Higgsfield to Claude and ship an app with no code and no servers. The exact setup I used, plus Dopamine Desk, the app I built with it for a $100K contest.
BuildingJune 17, 20266 min
Claude Agrees With You Too Much. Here's My Fix.
The more confident you sound, the more Claude agrees, even when you're wrong. So I stopped asking one model and started running a council of five. Five lenses, blind peer review, one clear verdict. No code, no API key.
BuildingJune 5, 20263 min
The Dev Stack You Need to Ship Real Products
6 tools. No fluff. The exact stack I use to build, deploy, and monetize products from my laptop. Claude Code, Supabase, Vercel, GitHub, Higgsfield, Stripe.
BuildingMay 11, 20269 min
The Claude Skills Directory
There are 1,116 Claude Code skills on GitHub. You only need 71 of them. The curated shortlist, and how to build the ones nobody else has.
BuildingMay 7, 202610 min
Claude Code Setup Done Right
Most guides stop at the install command. That's where the real config work begins, CLAUDE.md, skills, MCP servers, and the habits that make it all stick.
BuildingMay 7, 20267 min
Stop Re-Explaining Yourself to Claude
Every new chat, you retype the same context. Your name, your tone, your rules. There's a better way, Claude skill files let you say it once and never again.
Madrid LifeApril 15, 20265 min
Best Coffee Shops in Madrid, A Living Review
Working through every specialty coffee shop in Madrid. Ratings on the cup, the vibe, and how well it works as a place to think or film. Updated as I go.
BuildingApril 9, 20266 min
Why Git Matters When You Build with AI
AI can write your code. But if it only lives on localhost, you haven't shipped anything. A real story about broken deploys, squash merge disasters, and the workflow that actually works.
BuildingApril 4, 202612 min
How I Use Claude Code to Run 3 Businesses from My Laptop
Years of engineering is what makes AI tools actually work. Here's the real workflow, not a demo, not a review, the actual system I use to build products from a laptop in Madrid.
BuildingMarch 23, 20267 min
How I Replaced Qwilr with My Own Proposal System
Qwilr charges $35/month for branded proposals. I built my own in a day, e-signatures, pipeline tracking, terminal-style design. Zero subscription, forever.
BuildingMarch 22, 20268 min
How I Built an IG Carousel Editor with AI
I'm a software engineer. I could've built this the slow way. Instead I used AI as my co-pilot and shipped a full IG carousel editor over a few weeks. Here's the entire process.
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