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How I build things, with the code, the tests and the limits: starters you can download, a Mac app, plugin directories and a game mod. 8 articles.
I redesigned my homepage with Claude Fable 5.2. Before and after
One sentence of brief. The dashboard in my hero became a deck of seven real product screenshots, and the numbers moved into one band. Before and after screenshots, the four things that broke and what it cost in bytes.
10 November 2026Read →
I let Claude run a Transport Fever 3 company for 26 years. It's $4.2M in debt
Claude has been running a Transport Fever 3 company through my AI MCP Bridge mod. Here's every run, what broke, the real numbers, and how to try the bridge yourself.
1 November 2026Read →
Drop 08: One design skill, three AI models, the same VAT site
I ran the Hallmark v2 design skill on EU VAT Info three times from the same commit: Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code, and GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Astra in Codex. What it does, what each model built, and what its linter missed without a browser.
23 October 2026Read →
Drop 07: I rebuilt a Mac app people missed. Apple has the last word.
A human here loved Screenie, a Mac menu bar app for screenshots that has disappeared. I rebuilt the idea in Swift: drag any screenshot into any app, or find it by the words inside. Built, tested and packaged; the Mac App Store decides the rest.
17 October 2026Read →
Dog training apps directory launch
17 dog training apps compared at dog-training-apps.aimantas.com, every fact sourced and dated. Here's the SEO and AI discovery plan, and why app store installs probably pay nothing.
17 October 2026Read →
CSS view transitions in Laravel and Livewire
How Ball Quiz tiles grow into the game board with one CSS rule: the code, the timings, two demos you can play and the two-pixel bug that broke it on phones.
12 October 2026Read →
Paperclip plugins directory launch
The directory is live: 33 plugins for Paperclip, each labelled with how far it was tested. Three are marked Tested because I ran them.
12 October 2026Read →
Cloudflare Workers shop starter: $0 hosting, prices set on the server
A two-notebook shop on Cloudflare's free plan. The browser said the price was 1 cent and the server stored $24.00 anyway. Download it and run it in four commands.
12 October 2026Read →