The open workshop
One small piece of real work, most days. No announcements, no launches — just what I'm actually building.
At the end of most days I look back at what I actually worked on, pick one thing, and write it up here — built with the same tools I teach. Nothing goes up that I haven't read first. On Fridays, the week becomes one email: La Crónica.
My AI assistant said it would remember something across a restart. It couldn't — restarting wipes it. Next session it guessed what we'd been doing and built the wrong thing.
So I gave it a memory that survives: three plain files — what it knows, what happened, where we stopped. Then I put it on a server and wired it to Telegram. I ask it things from my pocket now.
Tomorrow: what it's allowed to change, and what it isn't.
Been mostly heads-down on client work I can't detail here, so the daily posts slipped for a few days. One thing I can show: Vigilia (aivigilia.com), my AI-oversight company, runs a tool that watches the news for opportunities — it had a blind spot and missed a major story last week. Fixed it; it now checks 13 places instead of 3. Even this posting system got a stricter new check on what's safe to publish.
Tomorrow: back to the daily rhythm.
Started something new today, working name Veraz. The question behind it: every time someone uses AI, what does that actually cost in water, electricity, and materials — with real numbers, not guesses? Nobody's built a straight answer to that yet. Too early for a link or a name that sticks, but it's real, it's dated today, and I'll keep showing the build as it happens.
Tomorrow: catching up properly — Friday's letter is late, and it's coming.
Escape Babylon (escapebabylon.org) is a learning tool I'm building for teenagers. Before I let myself build a single feature, I made one rule: nobody sees anything without a parent's ok, no exceptions, checked automatically every time — not something I promise to remember to do later. It made week one slower. It means every feature I add from here just follows that rule instead of me having to think about it again.
Tomorrow: the first weekly letter.
Last month I built a whole system to post here daily. It never posted a single time — too many steps for what it was worth. Today I threw it out and started over with one rule: show the real thing, don't perform it. Most days now, you'll see one small true moment from whatever I'm actually building. Nothing staged. This is the first one.
Tomorrow: day two.
La Crónica
One email on Fridays: the week's posts, one useful thing, and what I learned from other people.