Projects from April 2026 to now, and how each one was built.
Counted from the commit history as of October 7, 2026. Sessions counted only where a session link was recorded, so the real number is higher.
Chapters
Chapter one
Home Manager
An iPhone app for tracking home maintenance, planned and built in four days.
Paused · Draft
Chapter two
CityBrew
A weekly local newsletter written by AI, retired once a Claude scheduled task could do the same job.
Retired · Draft
Chapter three
Reviresco
My studio: a brand kit, a print-on-demand pipeline, a home cinema site and a stock tracker.
In progress · Draft
Chapter four
Three small Mac apps
BetterBattery, DayDial and NetPulse: three menu bar utilities.
Shipped · Draft
Chapter five
3D printing
Problems around the house and the truck, solved with parts Claude designs and I print.
In progress · Draft
Chapter six
Side quests
A fantasy football agent, an e-reader installer, and a learning plan generator.
Shipped · Draft
Chapter seven
SignalWall
An LED wall display that pulls together the pieces from every project before it.
In progress · Draft
Chapter one · Draft
An iPhone app for tracking home maintenance, planned and built in four days.
An iPhone app for keeping a home running: photograph an appliance, and it finds the model, the manual and a maintenance schedule written by AI. My first project. The product brief, requirements, architecture and design were all written on the first day.
Three days
April 20
The plan
Product brief, requirements, architecture and UX design, one step per commit.
April 21
Nineteen stories
Sign-in, the home profile, assets, the camera and photo identification.
April 22
The AI part
Maintenance schedules written by a model, streamed in, saved as tasks.
Figures as of April 22, 2026, from the project's own records.
Product brief, requirements, architecture and UX design, each built step by step with a planning method for AI agents, all on the first day.
Source: home-manager-app _bmad-output/planning-artifacts
Point the camera at an appliance label: on-device text recognition reads the model, and a lookup finds it among 501 seeded appliances.
Source: HomeManagerApp Features/PhotoIdentification; supabase/seeds
A maintenance schedule streamed in word by word from an AI model, then saved as real tasks on the phone.
Source: Features/MaintenanceSchedule/ScheduleGenerationViewModel.swift
Toward SignalWall · The iPhone app
My first iPhone app. SignalWall's app is built with the same tools: SwiftUI, the Supabase Swift client and an XcodeGen project file.
Source: home-manager-app project.yml; SignalWall ios/project.yml
Chapter two · Draft
A weekly local newsletter written by AI, retired once a Claude scheduled task could do the same job.
An AI-curated weekly guide to things to do around Columbus. A two-minute chat builds a taste profile; each week a small, fast model picks from fresh events and a library of favorite places, and a larger one writes. Later a Claude scheduled task could do the same job with no infrastructure at all, so CityBrew was retired.
The bill, before and after
$70 to 125
$1 to 2
a month, before and after
| Line item | Before | After |
|---|---|---|
| Event discovery (web search) | $95 | $1.50 |
| A server running all day | $20 | $0 |
| Job queue | $10 | $0 |
| Curation and writing | $2 | $0.50 |
Figures as of July 17, 2026, from the project's own records.
Retired once a Claude scheduled task and a skill could do the same weekly job with no servers, no database and no deploys.
Source: Owner, Workshop kickoff, 2026-10-06
An autonomous build loop shipped five epics of stories in about 80 minutes; the evening went to human testing and fixes.
Source: CityBrew history, 2026-04-28, 13:05 to 14:24
A cost briefing found most of the spend was web search during a daily scrape and a server running all day to fire a timer. The redesign made it one short weekly run.
Source: docs/COST-AND-ARCHITECTURE-BRIEFING.md
Fetching the source pages and extracting events with a small model replaced web search: about 62 seconds and a few cents a run.
Source: workers/src/events/fetch-scrape.ts
Kill switches that default to paused, and a hard failure instead of ever emailing an empty digest.
Source: .github/workflows/weekly-digest.yml
Toward SignalWall · The cloud
CityBrew needed a server, then a weekly scheduled job. SignalWall has no cloud job at all: the Pi fetches its own data and pulls its playlist from the cloud.
Source: SignalWall docs/DECISIONS.md, Pi-direct polling; docs/PRD.md
Chapter three · Draft
My studio: a brand kit, a print-on-demand pipeline, a home cinema site and a stock tracker.
Reviresco is my studio name. Under it: a brand kit designed with Claude and tested for drift, a print-on-demand pipeline whose guardrails live in code, a site for a seven-seat home cinema that issues Wallet tickets, and Stock Watch, which started as a scheduled task.
Guardrails in code
Before anything publishes
One concept passes. The other fails the trademark screen and is stored with the reason. A design that fails any check is refused and logged, and there is no flag to skip a check.
Figures as of October 7, 2026, from the project's own records.
Concepts are screened twice for trademark risk: once by the model, then by a denylist in code. Killed ideas are kept with the reason, never dropped.
Source: revirescosupplyco src/lib/screening.ts
The model writes the artwork as SVG, and the code checks it: a strict allowlist of elements, text converted to paths, and print size pulled from the print provider.
Source: revirescosupplyco src/lib/svgdesign.ts
The cinema went from design boards to working pages in about fifteen minutes, then gained Wallet tickets and a seat picker.
Source: goreviresco cinema, 2026-09-10
Toward SignalWall · Shared pieces from the house
SignalWall lives in the same Supabase project as Stock Watch, uses the house brand colors, and copied the Supply Co. pipeline's check that catches a secret pasted in its masked form.
Source: SignalWall docs/DECISIONS.md, Shared Supabase project; render/palette.py; signalwall/env.py
Chapter four · Draft
BetterBattery, DayDial and NetPulse: three menu bar utilities.
Three menu bar apps sharing one set of rules: efficiency is a feature, update controls live at the bottom, and live values ease instead of snapping. Built, released and updated in place through GitHub, with every commit written with Claude.
Ease vs snap
The apps sample once a second. A readout bound straight to the sample jumps once a second, which looks laggy. Animating between samples makes the same data move smoothly.
Snap
26.0W
Bound straight to a once-a-second sample.
Ease
26.0W
The same samples, eased and keyed to one quantized value.
Toward SignalWall · Native Swift
SignalWall's app is SwiftUI as well. On the wall itself the motion rule goes the other way: whole-dot steps and no easing, written down as a decision.
Source: SignalWall docs/DECISIONS.md, TRANSITION_MS
BetterBattery
Live watts going into and out of a MacBook battery.
Download for Mac
DayDial
How much of the day is left, shown as a ring, with sunrise and sunset from a typed location.
Download for Mac
NetPulse
Live network throughput in the menu bar, history kept in memory only.
Download for MacThe apps are signed but not yet notarized, so macOS asks once: open System Settings, Privacy and Security, and choose Open Anyway. After that they update themselves in place.
Chapter five · Draft
Problems around the house and the truck, solved with parts Claude designs and I print.
I set up my first 3D printer on September 26, 2026. When something needs a part now, I describe the problem, Claude designs it in Python, renders it from four sides, slices it, checks the print file and sends it to the printer, and I clear the plate and press print. Twelve projects in the first ten days, from a cracked truck clip to SignalWall's case. It saves money, and it's fun.
01
Printed October 1
Problem
One of the clips that hold the prop rod on my truck's folding tonneau cover cracked.
Made
A replacement with the rail grip kept exactly and a taller, tapered claw that stretches half as much. A magnetic version came first and was dropped.
Rail profile from a community design on Printables (model 163100).
The stress test, in full
02
Grid printed · trays designed
Problem
A 47-inch tool drawer with everything loose in it.
Made
A 28 by 10 Gridfinity grid on twelve printed tiles, laid out to fill the drawer to within 3 mm, and cradle trays sized to each tool.
03
Printing October 4 and 5
Problem
The LED wall needed a case that hides the Pi and the wiring and hangs on a wall.
Made
Three trays, cleats, spacers, a hatch door and a black bezel that snaps on. Three versions in one day; the third is in PETG.
04
On the printer October 3
Problem
The dog's waste bags on the back porch needed somewhere to go.
Made
A tapered 11-liter bin with the dog's name in raised letters (blurred here), a rim bead that holds a bag, and drain channels under the feet.
05
First print failed; being redesigned
Problem
A wastebasket for filament scraps and paper offcuts, in a shape only a printer can make.
Made
A one-piece interlaced three-way weave with a wrapped rim, a patterned floor and a drop-in liner.
06
Version 21 printing, October 2
Problem
A stand for two pipes that looks hand carved.
Made
Two pipes with their stems crossed over a freestanding triquetra, on a base carved with a three-strand plait. Shown is version 3; version 21 adds a carved dais and pipe pockets.
07
Designed, not printed
Problem
A camera aimed at the dog's crate, with no shelf nearby.
Made
A plate over a standard outlet with a tilting arm. The USB adapter plugs in through the plate, which also holds it.
08
Printed October 1
Problem
Six 56-volt tool batteries sitting on a garage floor.
Made
Six wall brackets, sliced for a hot garage so the PETG doesn't creep under load.
Bracket design: MakerWorld 484377.
09
Printed September 26 and 27
Problem
A miniature corner library with nothing to put on its shelves.
Made
122 mini books in six styles, generated in Python at heights that fit the 30 mm shelves.
Library model: MakerWorld 2400321.
Also on the printer
Car wash soap scoop
Double-ended: a 48 ml cup for a full foam cannon at 1:20 and a 19 ml cup for half a five-gallon bucket at 1:500. Saved to the printer October 3.
Outdoor pipe rest
A smaller stand for the patio in white PETG, with a drain hole in the bowl dish. Saved to the printer October 3.
Renders by Claude from each part's own model files. Status as of October 5, 2026, from my 3D printing project notes.
Deep dive
Before printing a replacement, Claude ran the clip through a stress simulation: open the jaws just wide enough for the 8 mm rod and measure how far the plastic stretches. The stock claw peaks at 4.5%, enough to crack it over time. The one I printed peaks at 2.2% and grips the rod about twice as hard. Claude tried 38 designs to get there.
The stress test, in full
Stock · 4.5%
Redesigned · 2.2%
The case Claude designed for SignalWall, put together in the order of its assembly guide.
Step 1 of 6
Three trays, bolted together
Nuts press into hex pockets, the end trays slide into the center one, and four screws join them.
Step 2 of 6
Cleats and spacers on the back
A cleat along the top hooks onto a matching one on the wall; spacers hold the bottom off it.
Step 3 of 6
The Pi and its power
The Pi sits on four standoffs in the left tray, with the memory card over a hatch.
Step 4 of 6
The case goes over the panels
Both LED panels lie face down, and eight screws go through the back into their inserts.
Step 5 of 6
Power test
Plugged in for an hour before anything is closed up.
Step 6 of 6
Bezel and hatch
The black bezel snaps on in two halves, and the hatch door clicks into the back.
Step 1
Three trays, bolted together
Nuts press into hex pockets, the end trays slide into the center one, and four screws join them.
Step 2
Cleats and spacers on the back
A cleat along the top hooks onto a matching one on the wall; spacers hold the bottom off it.
Step 3
The Pi and its power
The Pi sits on four standoffs in the left tray, with the memory card over a hatch.
Step 4
The case goes over the panels
Both LED panels lie face down, and eight screws go through the back into their inserts.
Step 5
Power test
Plugged in for an hour before anything is closed up.
Step 6
Bezel and hatch
The black bezel snaps on in two halves, and the hatch door clicks into the back.
Figures as of October 5, 2026, from the project's own records.
One of the stock clips that hold my tonneau cover's prop rod cracked: its claw stretches 4.5% every time the 8 mm rod snaps in. Claude ran a stress simulation on 38 versions of a new claw. The one I printed stretches 2.2%, grips about twice as hard, and grips the rail exactly like the original.
Source: Stress-Testing the Tonneau Clip, the page Claude made from the analysis
The first replacement was my idea: drop the rod into a cradle and hold it with a magnet. It didn't work, so I scrapped it and asked for a snap claw like the stock one, only stronger. That's the clip in the deep dive.
Source: Printer setup chat, September 30 and October 1
Materials are picked by heat and flex: PLA softens at 55 to 60 °C, so nothing for the truck; PETG for the garage and the clip; ASA for parts that sit in the sun; and no carbon-fiber nylon for a clip that has to flex, because it is too brittle.
Source: 3D Printing project notes, DESIGN_GUIDELINES.md, materials
After three jams, Claude read the printer's own logs and found the signal: a steady 15% drop in heater power at the same temperature means plastic has stopped flowing. A watcher script checks for it, and every print file must pass a preflight check first.
Source: 3D Printing project notes, jam investigation, October 2
SignalWall's case went through three versions in one day: three white PETG trays, cleats and a hatch door, and a black bezel that snaps on. About 696 grams and 25 hours of printing.
Source: 3D Printing project notes, SignalWall enclosure v3
A Gridfinity grid for a 1194 mm tool drawer: 28 by 10 squares on twelve printed tiles, laid out to fill the drawer to within 3 mm, with a tray cut to fit each tool.
Source: 3D Printing project notes, tool drawer grid and trays
Toward SignalWall · Printed parts
The same printer made SignalWall's case: three white PETG trays, cleats and a hatch door, and a black bezel that snaps on. The next version uses one kind of screw and snap fits for the rest.
Source: 3D Printing project notes, SignalWall enclosure, October 4 and 5
Chapter six · Draft
A fantasy football agent, an e-reader installer, and a learning plan generator.
Smaller projects: an agent tool server where every write is a dry run until confirmed. A double-click installer that flashes new firmware onto an e-reader for a family member. And a form that turns a person's goals into a ready-to-use learning plan prompt.
Every write the agent makes
01
Plan
Work out exactly what would change.
02
Refuse if blocked
Guardrails first: protected players, a spending cap, trades off.
03
Dry run
The default. Show the change, touch nothing.
04
Confirm
Only an explicit confirm executes, and only once.
05
Verify
Read it back from the source to prove it happened.
06
Audit
Exactly one log row per write.
Figures as of September 30, 2026, from the project's own records.
Twenty tools for an AI agent to manage a fantasy team. Every write plans, refuses if blocked, runs dry by default, executes once on confirm, verifies, and logs exactly one audit row.
Source: ClaudeCode sleeper-agent/README.md
The installer only ever writes the app partition, never the bootloader, so a failed run leaves the old firmware working.
Source: ClaudeCode crosspoint-x3-installer/README.md
The learning-plan form keeps answers on the device and builds a prompt that tells the model to check that every course it recommends really exists.
Source: ClaudeCode ai-upskilling/questionnaire.html
Chapter seven · Draft
An LED wall display that pulls together the pieces from every project before it.
Two chained LED panels on a Raspberry Pi, an iPhone app to plan what they show, a cloud project in between, and printed parts. The renderer was built in an emulator first, the updater rolls itself back, the app ships through TestFlight, and every frame is checked by tests at two panel widths.
What came together
The iPhone app
The cloud
Shared pieces from the house
Native Swift
Printed parts
SignalWall
The iPhone app, the cloud, the Pi software and printed parts, in one device.
The cost
Source: Parts list in my SignalWall build chat, September 11, 2026; the $600 is my figure for a commercial display.
Frames from SignalWall's tests.
Every dot here comes from SignalWall's golden test images, which its test suite renders and checks on every change.
Slide, one column at a time.
Scrolling plays the board's real transition: 700 milliseconds on the wall, whole-dot steps, no easing.
Flip, one row at a time.
Same rules, vertical. The web version is a port of the board's motion code, tested pixel for pixel against its filmstrips.
Frames from SignalWall's tests.
Every dot here comes from SignalWall's golden test images, which its test suite renders and checks on every change.
Slide, one column at a time.
Scrolling plays the board's real transition: 700 milliseconds on the wall, whole-dot steps, no easing.
Flip, one row at a time.
Same rules, vertical. The web version is a port of the board's motion code, tested pixel for pixel against its filmstrips.
Figures as of October 6, 2026, from the project's own records.
Every data source is tested against a recorded real response. No test ever calls the live service, and no API shape is written from memory.
Source: SignalWall docs/CONVENTIONS.md, Tests
45 architecture decisions on record, each with an escape hatch. A decision changes only by a new entry that supersedes it.
Source: SignalWall docs/DECISIONS.md
Orchestrating agents ran builders in separate worktrees, each owning its own files, working through work orders sized for one focused session.
Source: SignalWall STATE.md; docs/build/S8.md
Built in an emulator for five weeks before the hardware lit up, behind one driver shim.
Source: edge/signalwall/driver/matrix_import.py
Every release checks itself in its own environment, then must prove it is healthy after restart or it flips back.
Source: docs/SPEC.md, Auto-update
No canvas size is hardcoded: every golden frame renders at 128 and 192 dots wide.
Source: CLAUDE.md, Non-negotiables
The app
I plan what the wall shows in the iPhone app and publish it; the board picks it up from the cloud. These two screens are rebuilt from the app's source for this page, with its layout and colors, and the preview inside plays the board's real frames. Screenshots from the app will replace them.
The playlist
The app opens in guest mode: the editor, every screen and a pretend board, no wall required.
The river
One row per project, one bar per week, all on the same scale (square root, so a quiet week of three commits still shows beside a busy week of a hundred). It is redrawn every time the commits are counted again.
Home Manager112
CityBrew276
BetterBattery23
DayDial5
NetPulse6
Learning plan1
Supply Co.32
The house106
SignalWall358
CrossPoint1
Sleeper Agent12
| Project | First | Latest | Commits | With Claude |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home Manager | 2026-04-20 | 2026-04-22 | 112 | 108 |
| CityBrew | 2026-04-27 | 2026-07-21 | 276 | 230 |
| BetterBattery | 2026-07-30 | 2026-08-05 | 23 | 23 |
| DayDial | 2026-08-01 | 2026-08-05 | 5 | 5 |
| NetPulse | 2026-08-02 | 2026-08-06 | 6 | 6 |
| Learning plan | 2026-08-11 | 2026-08-11 | 1 | 1 |
| Supply Co. | 2026-08-12 | 2026-08-13 | 32 | 32 |
| The house | 2026-08-12 | 2026-10-07 | 106 | 105 |
| SignalWall | 2026-08-26 | 2026-10-07 | 358 | 324 |
| CrossPoint | 2026-09-14 | 2026-09-14 | 1 | 1 |
| Sleeper Agent | 2026-09-29 | 2026-09-30 | 12 | 12 |
Counted from the commit history as of October 7, 2026.
About
AI enablement at a global bank · Owner of Reviresco
I'm a tinkerer at heart, and I'm excited about using AI to increase the problem-solving impact of people and organizations.
Everything on this page was built outside my day job, since April 2026, in conversation with Claude.
The views here are my own, not my employer's.
