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Build Log

Mike Litman - 9 Feb 2026 onwards

15+ years in culture and media. Building AI-native products full-time since Sep 2025.

5,682
Total commits
5,682
2026 so far
416
Best week
0
Week streak
-40%
4-week momentum
Commit velocity - 31 weeks commits personal best 3-week avg milestone
Trove MVP: bookmarking engine and taste curation from scratch EVERYWEAR pipeline launch + 40+ Trove features in one week The Pattern rebrand with ElevenLabs voice clone Buggy Smart goes live: voice agent calling 3,000 London restaurants The System webinar week: 125 registrations, 63 live, VPs from Google and IBM ElevenLabs application sprint: CV, interview prep, all shipped as portfolio Cut Buggy Smart costs from $22/day to $1-3/day through batch optimisation Beat the Gaffer: zero to full product in 6 days. 331 commits. 09 Feb - 15 Feb 2026: 23 commits 16 Feb - 22 Feb 2026: 64 commits 23 Feb - 01 Mar 2026: 23 commits 02 Mar - 08 Mar 2026: 86 commits 09 Mar - 15 Mar 2026: 60 commits 16 Mar - 22 Mar 2026: 55 commits 23 Mar - 29 Mar 2026: 185 commits 30 Mar - 05 Apr 2026: 231 commits 06 Apr - 12 Apr 2026: 396 commits 13 Apr - 19 Apr 2026: 362 commits 20 Apr - 26 Apr 2026: 321 commits 27 Apr - 03 May 2026: 314 commits 04 May - 10 May 2026: 416 commits 11 May - 17 May 2026: 286 commits 18 May - 24 May 2026: 296 commits 25 May - 31 May 2026: 285 commits 01 Jun - 07 Jun 2026: 62 commits 08 Jun - 14 Jun 2026: 77 commits 15 Jun - 21 Jun 2026: 74 commits 22 Jun - 28 Jun 2026: 90 commits 29 Jun - 05 Jul 2026: 82 commits 06 Jul - 12 Jul 2026: 127 commits 13 Jul - 19 Jul 2026: 210 commits 20 Jul - 26 Jul 2026: 248 commits 27 Jul - 02 Aug 2026: 238 commits 03 Aug - 09 Aug 2026: 222 commits 10 Aug - 16 Aug 2026: 267 commits 17 Aug - 23 Aug 2026: 262 commits 24 Aug - 30 Aug 2026: 182 commits 31 Aug - 06 Sep 2026: 122 commits 07 Sep - 13 Sep 2026: 16 commits
FebMarAprMayJunJulAugSep

Counted from git across 10 repositories, ISO weeks (Monday to Sunday), complete weeks only, including 3,381 automated commits (CI bakes, launch-log and token-usage rebuilds). 31 weeks charted. Regenerated daily by scripts/generate-progress.py.

Monthly totals
Feb 2026
110
Mar 2026
617
Apr 2026
1,393
May 2026
1,283
Jun 2026
385
Jul 2026
823
Aug 2026
1,055
Sep 2026
16
Project activity - weeks active
Portfolio
26w
Newsletter
23w
Buggy Smart
20w
Culture Brief
20w
EVERYWEAR
17w
Beat the Gaffer
15w
Trove
5w
Queue Index
4w
Book Library
2w
First Order
2w
The Pattern
2w
The System
2w
Project timeline - each column is one week
Portfolio
Newsletter
Buggy Smart
Culture Brief
EVERYWEAR
Beat the Gaffer
Trove
Queue Index
Book Library
First Order
The Pattern
The System
W31 07 Sep - 13 Sep 2026 -9
Beat the GafferPortfolio★Buggy SmartCulture BriefEVERYWEARNewsletter
216 commits
  1. Beat the Gaffer* went on a tear: 14+ features and fixes shipped across leagues, predictions, player pages and push notifications, including head-to-head records, club crests on every pick, a week-winner crown, and the AI gaffer calling out your howlers by name
  2. Slack corpus dashboard* rebuilt from the ground up: one source of truth for all numbers, archaeology counts refreshed to September, a co-activation network chart (chart 7 of 7), and a live six-charts page added to the Control Room
  3. buggy-smart* pipeline hardened: watchdog cadence dropped from hourly to 6-hourly, and a wasteful forced 15-minute sleep in the call batch (costing ~320 minutes per month) eliminated
216 commits | 8 repos | 18 features shipped
W30 31 Aug - 06 Sep 2026
Portfolio★Buggy SmartCulture BriefEVERYWEARNewsletterQueue Index
225 commits
  1. Forecast Issue 22 published - the weekly forecast newsletter went from draft (Sep 5) to published (Sep 6) in the portfolio repo, alongside a Belief Index update and daily beliefs-vs-news tracking running all week
  2. buggy-smart ran without missing a beat - morning and evening pipelines fired every day with hourly watchdog ticks keeping the system honest, including tracker syncs on Sep 3 and Sep 4
  3. culture-brief shipped 7 daily editions plus a weekly synthesis - consistent daily publishing from Aug 31 through Sep 6 with a full synthesis dropping on Sunday
225 commits | 6 repos | 5 features shipped
W29 24 Aug - 30 Aug 2026
Beat the GafferPortfolio★Buggy SmartCulture BriefEVERYWEARNewsletter
0 commits
  1. Beat the Gaffer: massive security and infrastructure week - shipped RLS guards, atomic rate limiting, admin approval gates for mass emails, next/image optimisation across 4 steps, migration collision fixes, and a new admin tool for late picks. 16+ PRs merged.
  2. Beat the Gaffer: player-facing improvements landed too - decluttered the /predict page, fixed the banker "used" bug, made GW1 hardcodes dynamic, and showed each visitor their own pick on the results page.
  3. Portfolio/Forecast: Issue 21 drafted and published, newsletter issue #013 candidates curated across three sessions (reaching 83 links), Belief Index updated weekly, and Beat the Gaffer added to the live health checks dashboard.
W28 17 Aug - 23 Aug 2026
Beat the GafferPortfolio★Buggy SmartEVERYWEARNewsletter
0 commits
  1. Beat the Gaffer went into overdrive: 80+ commits shipping a video-first predict hero, personalised on-demand my-picks videos, locked-picks animated share cards, passkey enrol, a full scoring transparency overhaul, GW1 reminder email system, Profile D scrapbook, admin Control Room layers 2 and 3, and a wave of performance fixes eliminating query waterfalls across every major page
  2. Forecast Issue 20 shipped on 23 Aug, with drafting through the week and the Belief Index weekly update also published -- the portfolio pipeline kept the beliefs-vs-news tracker, analytics dashboard, and site bake all firing daily without a miss
  3. buggy-smart ran a rock-solid 24/7 watchdog and pipeline cadence all week, with morning and evening pipelines firing daily plus manual tracker syncs on Thu and Fri
W27 10 Aug - 16 Aug 2026
Beat the GafferPortfolio★Culture BriefEVERYWEARNewsletter
0 commits
  1. Beat the Gaffer went absolutely ballistic -- 80+ commits shipping the full Verdict engine (Pillars 1-5), GW1 predictions with sealed pre-lock state, freemium leagues, passkey login, pub hub QR flow, ISR caching across six public pages, and a TypeScript CI gate. The product went from skeleton to launch-ready in seven days.
  2. Forecast Issue 19 shipped on 16 Aug -- drafted Friday, published Sunday, with the Belief Index weekly update and daily beliefs-vs-news pipeline running clean throughout.
  3. Everywear maintained twice-daily data refreshes all week and ran its weekly analysis on 14 Aug, with a tidy auto-deploy trim dropping the redundant local pipeline.
W26 03 Aug - 09 Aug 2026
Beat the GafferPortfolio★Buggy SmartCulture BriefEVERYWEARNewsletter
0 commits
  1. Beat the Gaffer shipped a huge wave of UI and product work: lenticular collectible cards, a reactive die-cut masthead with 20 poses, squad card finishes system, leaderboard redesign, onboarding step 5, coupon clock, and a full lipsync pipeline script. Over 40 feature and fix commits across the week.
  2. portfolio published Forecast Issue 18, saved 32 newsletter candidates for issue #013, and ran daily belief index updates, pattern bakes, token usage refreshes and analytics dashboard syncs every single day without a miss.
  3. culture-brief produced a daily edition every day from Mon 03 to Sun 09, plus a weekly synthesis on Sunday, with a mid-week fix to the audio retry pipeline resolving a stale artifact lookup bug.
W25 27 Jul - 02 Aug 2026
Beat the GafferPortfolio★Newsletter
0 commits
  1. Beat the Gaffer shipped a massive sprint: 60+ commits across Mon-Sun covering the full comic annual redesign, a founders crowdfunding page, sticker achievements system (per-club, calendar, meta, grails), PWA install prompt, pub league package, shareable howler cards, Prostate Cancer UK charity tie-in, compliance hardening, and a full site-wide white/red comic theme. Enormous week.
  2. Beat the Gaffer compliance and legal: DB-backed rate limiting, PECR/GDPR email unsubscribe, age-assurance at onboarding, profanity filter and report/hide in league chat, PostHog erasure, and FPL ownership stripped from ingest. All landed before the week closed.
  3. Forecast newsletter Issue 17 drafted Saturday and published Sunday, while the portfolio site ran daily bakes, analytics updates, and a Belief Index weekly update throughout.
W24 20 Jul - 26 Jul 2026
Beat the GafferPortfolio★Buggy SmartEVERYWEARNewsletter
0 commits
  1. Beat the Gaffer shipped at extraordinary pace: 80+ feature commits this week alone, covering a full comic-annual pop-art redesign across all surfaces, a compliance floor (display-name validation, profanity/impersonation guards, account deletion, privacy and terms), a Scene Bank on the CDN, sponsor slots, chip simplification, sticker trading, an FPL API source, Sportmonks scaffold, and a complete content-planning calendar for the Gaffer persona
  2. Beat the Gaffer also landed a full posting-queue system with cron migration to GitHub Actions, fixture-gated planner to protect the free tier, dead-man's switch watchdog, newsletter and waitlist-drip on Resend, and a 1-gameweek ungated playable demo at /warmup
  3. btg-worldcup was franchised into the PL season: the podcast feed got a signed-off comic-annual cover, per-row season/gameweek editions, and post-match verdicts backfilled, closing out the World Cup chapter cleanly
W23 13 Jul - 19 Jul 2026
Beat the GafferPortfolio★Buggy SmartCulture BriefEVERYWEARNewsletter
268 commits
  1. Beat the Gaffer had a massive week: shipped the scored weekly Verdict column (Pillar 2), a live football knowledge layer with news ingestion and gated replies, in-scene lore graph with live-stream awareness, fantasy-meta fluency from the creator scene, Pub League Hub scaffolding, the Gaffer's Annual sticker pack, and a full migration of all scheduled crons off Netlify onto GitHub Actions
  2. Beat the Gaffer also locked down voice guardrails before launch, made the Gaffer voice ID env-driven, single-sourced the Gaffer persona module, and closed an anon-key bypass with a DB-level pub-league cap
  3. Portfolio published Forecast Issue 15, curated and saved newsletter issue #013 candidates across three days (104 links total), pushed the Belief Index weekly update, and ran the weekly Slack digest -- all automated pipelines held solid all week
268 commits | 8 repos | 14 features shipped
W22 06 Jul - 12 Jul 2026
Beat the GafferPortfolio★Buggy SmartEVERYWEARNewsletterQueue Index
0 commits
  1. Portfolio site: massive token-usage dashboard overhaul (Round 2 + Round 3) — shipped full combined history from day one, touchable charts, cost-per-project insights, tokens-to-outcomes join, public data.json + embeddable badge, CI rebuild, and a new "Six months, 59 billion tokens" long-read with a 19-slide deck. Huge day on Monday.
  2. Beat the Gaffer: World Cup + pre-season push — launched a two-pronged pre-season homepage, made the Gaffer's Record career-spanning across World Cup and Premier League, and shipped several digest and bracket fixes across btg-worldcup and the new beat-the-gaffer repo.
  3. Portfolio infrastructure + new pages — launched /labs (rebranded from The Playroom), /fractional-head-of-ai with publishing-ladder method and day rate, a live /today network front page, a 28-card Control Room dashboard, and server-side auth gates for sensitive pages.
W21 29 Jun - 05 Jul 2026
Beat the GafferPortfolio★Buggy SmartCulture BriefEVERYWEARNewsletter
174 commits
  1. Beat the Gaffer horizon-b redesign shipped - massive visual overhaul landing the full comic/newsprint design system (Beano/Panini/Shoot lineage), covering the Pick page, Wall, Leaderboard, Reckoning, sticker book, OG cards and a living styleguide
  2. BTG World Cup polished and stabilised - knockout picks redesign for Nick Round 6, Gaffer-voice push notification opt-in, CI gated on tsc + vitest, and correct site URL deployed
  3. Forecast Issue 13 published - newsletter pipeline ran all week curating 49 links across three candidate saves, with draft on Friday and publish on Sunday
174 commits | 7 repos | 6 features shipped
W20 22 Jun - 28 Jun 2026
Beat the GafferPortfolio★Buggy SmartNewsletter
0 commits
  1. Beat the Gaffer (World Cup): Massive shipping week - 60+ commits including the Gaffer's Call daily delivery engine, personalised emails with one-tap reactions, edge-cached leaderboard via ISR, auto-seeded knockout picks, X/OAuth social sign-in, leagues bracket health and catch-up calculator, and a full Gaffer-voice copy sweep across the UI.
  2. Portfolio site: Repriced services with outcome-framed positioning and raised Retain-tier floors (voice hosting £400, site care £500/mo). Published Forecast Issue 12, saved 75 newsletter candidates for Issue 13, and backfilled signal-to-output backlinks across 80 ships in the launch log.
  3. Buggy Smart: Data pipelines ran without interruption all week - morning, evening and retry runs every day plus the weekly enrich and rescrape on Sunday, all monitored by a 24/7 watchdog.
W19 15 Jun - 21 Jun 2026
Beat the GafferPortfolio★Newsletter
0 commits
  1. Beat the Gaffer World Cup shipped relentlessly: 70+ commits across the week covering a full auth overhaul (Google, Apple, passkey/Face ID), 1v1 head-to-head duels, a redesigned daily recap email, chip mechanics with two-step confirm, live match minutes, referral challenge cards, SEO sitemap, and a character-led homepage hero. The product moved from scrappy to polished in seven days.
  2. Portfolio got a serious Slack weekly digest upgrade: Block Kit action buttons, interactivity endpoint, streak tracking, went-quiet signals, trending channels, peak hours, and new source detection all landed on Monday 16 Jun, with Issue 11 of the Forecast newsletter drafted and published by Sunday.
  3. Beat the Gaffer (season app) progressed in parallel: no-auth predict preview, GW38 finale event layer, deeper rivalry memory, promoted clubs added for 26/27, and the season-start date corrected with fixture-derived countdowns.
W18 08 Jun - 14 Jun 2026
Beat the GafferPortfolio★Buggy SmartCulture BriefEVERYWEARNewsletter
0 commits
  1. BTG World Cup launched and went deep fast -- btg-worldcup shipped an extraordinary volume of features across two days: the Gaffer Roast-a-Mate with Stripe payments, per-league crowd taunts, a voiced reacting Gaffer hero, knockout bracket, Group Stage wall, live match reactions, share cards, 8-digit login fallback, and The Gaffer's Diary daily serialised continuity. Arguably the biggest single-product sprint of the year.
  2. AI Agents in Production deck published -- a 19-slide deck dropped on World Cup opening night, paired with a blog post and linked from the portfolio. Timed deliberately. The post was also corrected same-day for an accuracy issue.
  3. Culture Brief prediction engine recalibrated -- fixed a 0/7 hit rate by reworking the prediction prompt, added honest small-sample framing, made the scoreboard responsive, and protected audio files from being pruned while still in the live feed. Seven daily editions published on top of that.
W17 01 Jun - 07 Jun 2026
Beat the GafferPortfolio★Buggy SmartCulture BriefEVERYWEARNewsletter
0 commits
  1. Beat the Gaffer World Cup shipped a full pre-tournament blitz across btg-worldcup and beat-the-gaffer: press kit, You-vs-the-Gaffer rivalry scoreboard, 8-pose Gaffer character states, Wall emoji reactions, frictionless challenge accept, security hardening across 5 API routes, PWA iOS install, SVG national flags, and a Node 22 runtime fix -- all live ahead of the 11 June opening day.
  2. Portfolio site rebranded from "The Builder Who Ships" to "Fractional Head of AI", hit the 20B token milestone, published Forecast Issue 9, and added ntfy push notifications alongside Slack DMs for the newsletter pipeline.
  3. buggy-smart ran continuously all week -- daily morning, evening and retry pipelines firing every day with tracker syncs and a full weekly enrich plus rescrape on Sunday.
W16 25 May - 31 May 2026
Beat the GafferPortfolio★Buggy SmartCulture BriefEVERYWEAR
0 commits
  1. Beat the Gaffer World Cup launched from zero - btg-worldcup went from initial build on Thursday to a full product by Sunday: scoring, mini-leagues, knockout rounds, 50 gamification badges, PWA, push notifications, OG images, invite flow, Gaffer audio, profile pages, and a CI test suite. Extraordinary week-long sprint.
  2. Portfolio site overhauled top to bottom - 240 blog posts got hero images, dark mode, RSS, a listen button, a Start Here strip, rewritten excerpts across 191 posts, and a fully redesigned interactive Algarve trip guide built as a mobile PWA.
  3. Beat the Gaffer (Premier League) shipped a visual design system - 8 Gaffer emotion illustrations wired across the site, new homepage, profile deep features, OG images on every public page, SEO sweep, and a between-GW standing card. Season wrapped at GW38 with a clean redirect to profile.
W15 18 May - 24 May 2026 +41Personal best
Beat the GafferTrovePortfolio★Buggy SmartCulture BriefNewsletter
331 commits
Beat the Gaffer: zero to full product in 6 days. 331 commits.
  1. Beat the Gaffer: shipped full blog platform with OG images, season stats, pull quotes, reading time, and Next.js 15 async PageProps fixes
  2. Portfolio: launched "What I Broke on GW38" blog post with live draft tracker fixes, VAR disallowance handling, and half-time audio commentary
  3. Trove: expanded from 4 to 10 Patina archetypes with confidence scoring, dynamic share cards, Pocket eulogy section, and competitive Readwise positioning
331 commits | 10 repos | 15+ features shipped
W14 11 May - 17 May 2026 +55
TrovePortfolio★Culture BriefNewsletterQueue Index
290 commits
  1. Portfolio blog redesign: overhauled B10 visual system with sparkline charts, category filtering, quote dividers, and post metadata displays
  2. Culture Brief v4: rebuilt edition pages with dark design system, custom audio player with chapters and transcripts, prediction tracking, and enterprise features
  3. Trove: shipped full offline mode with search, list, notes and realtime sync capabilities
290 commits | 6 repos | 12 features shipped
W13 04 May - 10 May 2026 -8
Buggy SmartNewsletter
235 commits
  1. Newsletter picker 010 shipped with swipe cards, inline title editing, take field integration, and persistent blob storage for editorial changes
  2. Optimist's Operating System expanded to 57 assets with new Press Kit, Starter Pack, Manifesto, Belief Brief, and AI hub integration
  3. Buggy Smart reached full completion across all 10 site sections with venue auto-generator, JSON-LD schema, adult-only venue preservation, and last-updated timestamps
235 commits | 7 repos | 15 features shipped
W12 27 Apr - 03 May 2026 -52
Portfolio★Buggy SmartNewsletterFirst OrderQueue Index
243 commits
  1. Shipped Mother Tongue Airways on ElevenLabs portfolio: 6-language interactive article with synced karaoke transcripts, audio scrubbing, and playback controls built on STT word timestamps
  2. Mirrored Railway tracker volume to git as recovery seed: added GET /cron/tracker endpoint and nightly pipeline commit to protect against volume failure
  3. Reconstructed venue tracker from results-cache and live map after Railway code deployment lag, recomputed summary blocks, and wired real audio analyser to replace breathing pulse animations
243 commits | 6 repos | 5 features shipped
W11 20 Apr - 26 Apr 2026 +50
Portfolio★Buggy SmartCulture BriefEVERYWEARNewsletter
295 commits
Cut Buggy Smart costs from $22/day to $1-3/day through batch optimisation
  1. Buggy Smart cost reduction: slashed Haiku classification pipeline from $22/day to $1-3/day through batch optimisation and caching, plus fixed false-positive filtering to preserve human transcripts
  2. Portfolio redesign sprint: launched Moving Fast Breaks Things Slowly deck, Buggy Smart 1000 venue milestone blog post, credibility-pift institutional positioning, and Hassan interview prep materials
  3. Culture Brief hardening: implemented 3-layer self-healing for edition pages and feed regressions, deployed watchdog auto-recovery at noon daily, fixed audio CDN routing via Cloudflare Workers, and restored 59-episode RSS feed completeness
295 commits | 7 repos | 8 features shipped
W10 13 Apr - 19 Apr 2026 +66
Portfolio★Buggy SmartCulture BriefEVERYWEARNewsletterThe System
245 commits
ElevenLabs application sprint: CV, interview prep, all shipped as portfolio
  1. Buggy Smart homepage redesign with self-improving data callout, stronger narrative copy, and updated OG imagery reflecting current 10:1 call-to-map ratio
  2. ElevenLabs application landing page and CV redesign with voice agent audio samples, Summit photography, and builder-first positioning across portfolio site
  3. Everywear Phase 2-3 infrastructure: 15 brand intelligence pages, WTI Pro tier with Stripe payments, live dashboard with token auth, and weekly analysis automation
245 commits | 6 repos | 15+ features shipped
W09 06 Apr - 12 Apr 2026 -18
Portfolio★Buggy SmartCulture BriefEVERYWEARThe System
179 commits
The System webinar week: 125 registrations, 63 live, VPs from Google and IBM
  1. Launched Health OS deck and blog post (10/10) with live demo video, personal voice, and OG imagery across portfolio
  2. Built The System interactive demo with multi-demo tabs, live session stats, social proof, and post-webinar FAQ page
  3. Expanded buggy-smart venue dataset to 2,538 venues across 6 new boroughs (1,010 new venues) and optimised call costs to 175 calls per run
179 commits | 8 repos | 40+ features shipped
W08 30 Mar - 05 Apr 2026 +12
Portfolio★Buggy SmartCulture Brief
197 commits
  1. Shipped Buggy Smart site-wide quality pass: fixed all stat inconsistencies, replaced OG images with accurate messaging, added Gloria case study page, and hardened the call pipeline with ElevenLabs retries and daily health checks
  2. Launched portfolio updates across decks, projects and homepage: added BuggySmart pitch deck, four missing projects, narrative velocity deck with full checklist, and rewrote homepage hero with voice AI section and commercial stats
  3. Upgraded Culture Brief to v8.5: implemented active top nav, scrollable mobile navigation, category strips, related editions, and rebuilt best-of pipeline with improved editorial voice
197 commits | 4 repos | 12 features shipped
W07 23 Mar - 29 Mar 2026 +130
Portfolio★Buggy SmartCulture BriefThe PatternNewsletterFirst Order
185 commits
Buggy Smart goes live: voice agent calling 3,000 London restaurants
  1. Launched Buggy Smart voice agent calling 3,000+ London restaurants autonomously with Railway cron pipeline, GitHub Actions workflow, and ntfy notifications
  2. Shipped First Order London with dedicated Twilio number, hardened call persistence, and production-ready autonomous pipeline
  3. Upgraded portfolio site with 27 decks to production standard, added Moshi investor pitch deck (23 slides), voice agent learnings deck (20 insights), and manifesto PDF
185 commits | 5 repos | 8 major features shipped
W06 16 Mar - 22 Mar 2026 -5
Portfolio★Culture BriefNewsletterBook Library
55 commits
  1. Shipped v3 Culture Brief redesign with structured zine pipeline integration and enhanced OG cards featuring dynamic headlines and magazine-cover layouts
  2. Rebuilt Book Library with interactive homepage (flip, stack, pick-5 mechanics), quiz recommendation engine, and corrected 13+ ISBNs plus book metadata across the collection
  3. Migrated Pattern strategy deck to portfolio, consolidated all deploy content to git, and established daily bake pipeline with canary file smoke tests
55 commits | 3 repos | 8 features shipped
W05 09 Mar - 15 Mar 2026 -26
Portfolio★Culture BriefBook Library
60 commits
  1. Culture Brief: Major pipeline hardening with 10 new features, 8 resilience fixes, and comprehensive podcast infrastructure (ID3 tags, episode artwork, transcripts, audiograms)
  2. Culture Brief: Complete editorial redesign spanning palette migration, UX audit fixes, and visual polish across all modules with 7 new UX features
  3. Portfolio: Hardened deploy pipeline with multi-layer safeguards, pre-deploy sanity checks, and post-deploy smoke tests
60 commits | 3 repos | 28+ features shipped
W04 02 Mar - 08 Mar 2026 +63
TrovePortfolio★Culture BriefEVERYWEAR
86 commits
  1. Culture Brief: bulletproofed entire CI/CD pipeline with deploy safety guards, retry logic, freshness validation, and comprehensive error logging across 12 silent exception blocks
  2. EVERYWEAR: completed premium dark redesign with signal cards, brand tracker, audio briefing, weekly digest, and 10 new feeds plus 21 brand pages
  3. Trove: shipped public explore page with aggregate taste data and rebuilt Content Graph + Taste DNA card on landing
86 commits | 4 repos | 30+ features shipped
W03 23 Feb - 01 Mar 2026 -41
Culture BriefThe Pattern
23 commits
The Pattern rebrand with ElevenLabs voice clone
  1. Launched Culture Brief rebrand with ElevenLabs audio integration and Mike's cloned voice ID for personalised podcast experience
  2. Shipped 10 major features including prediction auto-resolution, JSON repair, URL validation, breadcrumbs and signal sharing across the platform
  3. Completed comprehensive audit fixes spanning security, validation, accessibility and SEO whilst upgrading TBPN copy with insider tone and 110+ sources
23 commits | 1 repo | 42 features shipped
W02 16 Feb - 22 Feb 2026 +41
TroveEVERYWEARNewsletter
64 commits
EVERYWEAR pipeline launch + 40+ Trove features in one week
  1. Launched EVERYWEAR pipeline with 8 major features: reading time, brand filtering, story clustering, newsletter integration, Supabase auth, and Cloudflare deployment
  2. Overhauled Trove extension authentication with cookie-based session handling, content script messaging, and deep diagnostics to fix login flows
  3. Added 40+ visual and functional upgrades to Trove: masonry layouts, domain colours, 6 new platform extractors (Reddit, GitHub, Bluesky, Spotify, TikTok, PDF), and reader mode
64 commits | 2 repos | 48 features shipped
W01 09 Feb - 15 Feb 2026
Trove
23 commits
Trove MVP: bookmarking engine and taste curation from scratch
  1. Launched Trove MVP with intelligent bookmarking engine and taste-based content curation
  2. Completely redesigned landing page with compelling copy, animated gradient visuals, and before/after mockups showcasing the product
  3. Fixed critical extraction bugs for blocked sites (x.com, JS-heavy pages) and added fxtwitter API integration for richer tweet data with thumbnails
23 commits | 1 repo | 8 features shipped