THE BUILD LOG
Notes from the workbench
FEATURED · AUG 2026
Idea, Design, Build, Ship
I stopped building one-offs and set up a proper pipeline — idea to live site — where an AI does the work at every stage and I just direct. Here's the four-stage assembly line, and why I now settle the look and feel in Claude Design before a single line of code gets written.
The board is the product
Not every project is a game. My cribbage board doesn’t deal a single card — it just does the counting, so the pegging stays on the table where it belongs. Here’s how it came together, mostly from my phone.
Building Poo Head: a whole card game in one file
How a deliberately awkward constraint — one index.html, no build step — turned into a peer-to-peer multiplayer card game, and the real-world bugs that nearly broke it.