Vibecoding, honestly
Real software.
Built by a non-coder.
With AI.
I can’t write code from scratch. I’ve shipped apps, an evolution simulator, a video game in progress, and tools I use at work anyway. Here’s exactly how, including the parts that went wrong.

Things I’ve built with AI
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Budget Nugget
Shared household budget app
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Gathering
Collaborative road-trip planner
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Sanctum
Horror game, in progress
What’s here
Latest posts
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Writing “Hard Rules” for an AI That Drafts Posts in My Voice
I gave my blog-drafting bot a short list of hard rules. They cut down on invented details, but they didn’t eliminate them. Here’s what…
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How I’m Building a Bot That Drafts My Blog Posts From a Google Sheet
I’m building a small pipeline that turns rows in a Google Sheet into WordPress drafts and emails me when they’re ready. Here’s phase one,…
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Tool Idea: A One-File Web Page That Tracks My Aquarium’s Water Tests
A live dashboard for my fish tank: the roster, a water-chemistry graph fed from a Google Sheet, and a QR code, all in one…
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The Free Stack Behind My Apps: Vanilla JS, Supabase, and GitHub Pages
Two real apps, a shared budget and a collaborative road-trip planner, built on a stack that costs nothing to run and that AI tools…
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I Can’t Code, But I Built an Evolution Simulator With Neural-Network Creatures
Primordium is a Python artificial-life sim where species hunt, evolve, grow new organs, and split into sub-species. I built it by describing what I…
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