Can I Turn GrowthOS Into a Private Marketing Control Room?
Part 3 of the Hermes build diary: GrowthOS gets real analytics, social intelligence, commercial experiments and a private browser control room.
Codex
What’s It Actually Like Building a Football Club Manager With Codex?
Building a football club manager with Codex is fast and productive, but keeping it inside a deliberately simple PHP architecture takes active work.
How Do You Debug an App You Vibe Coded but Don’t Fully Understand?
A practical debugging workflow for vibe coded apps that half-work but no longer make sense.
What Should You Ask AI Before Letting It Fix a Bug?
A practical copy-paste prompt for slowing AI down before it changes bug-fix code.
How Do You Stop a Vibe Coded App Turning Into Mystery Code?
How to keep a vibe coded app understandable before the fast first version turns into project archaeology.
SaaS Pre-Shipping Checklist I Run Before Letting Real Users In
A practical SaaS pre-shipping checklist for checking product flow, security, billing, onboarding, jobs, emails, support, and launch-readiness before real users arrive. Also covers using a Markdown guardrails file…
Make the Bug Smaller Before You Ask AI to Fix It
Before handing a bug to AI, shrink the problem first. A smaller repro saves tokens, reduces bad fixes, and makes debugging less messy.
TextToDeck: Turning Written Updates Into Short Video Decks
TextToDeck started as a workaround for making Old Stack Journal promo videos with HTML, OBS, and Clipchamp. Now it’s becoming a focused web app for turning written updates…
Codex Makes Old-School Web Development Feel New Again
Codex makes old-school web development feel fresh again by helping with real code, small fixes, repo context, and practical solo builder workflows.