Kicking off a monthly log of what I'm actually doing with AI, at work and at home. All the things I've built, broken, and learned. In July: a conversational training tutor, a lead enrichment API, a web player for animations trapped on 90s floppy disks, and turning a CRO audit into a set of redesigned web pages in hours instead of weeks.
I’ve got two separate social graphs right now — one on Bluesky, one on Mastodon — and no real sense of how much they overlap. I follow people on one who I probably also want to follow on the other, but I had no way of seeing the gap. So I asked Claude Code to help me figure out a way to actually see it: compare both follow lists and surface who I was missing on each side.
Childhood trips to the local library sparked unexpected discoveries. Now Google’s AI-driven search promises frictionless answers — but what do we lose when the librarian stops pointing at shelves and starts handing us pre-digested ones?
A full energy economy mod for OpenTTD that introduces nuclear and renewable industries over time — built for my own amusement.
From BBC Micro to browser - how nostalgia for text adventures, a dog-eared Ken Williams memoir, and some late-night Replit sessions led to a mobile-friendly port of Colossal Cave Adventure, built entirely on iOS.
After five years away from writing code, AI tools reignited a passion for building things — and changed what it means to be a solo maker forever.
The story of how nathanpitman.com — a personal blog that went dark when its host shut down — was recovered from the Wayback Machine and rebuilt with Astro.