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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.

2,511
Total commits
2,511
2026 so far
331
Best week
12
Week streak
+64%
4-week momentum
Commit velocity - 15 weeks commits personal best 3-week avg milestone
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: 197 commits 06 Apr - 12 Apr 2026: 179 commits 13 Apr - 19 Apr 2026: 245 commits 20 Apr - 26 Apr 2026: 295 commits 27 Apr - 03 May 2026: 243 commits 04 May - 10 May 2026: 235 commits 11 May - 17 May 2026: 290 commits 18 May - 24 May 2026: 331 commits (personal best) 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 16 Feb 23 Feb 02 Mar 09 Mar 16 Mar 23 Mar 30 Mar 06 Apr 13 Apr 20 Apr 27 Apr 04 May 11 May 18 May
Monthly totals
Feb 2026
110
Mar 2026
583
Apr 2026
962
May 2026
856
Project activity - weeks active
Portfolio
11w
Culture Brief
11w
Newsletter
9w
Buggy Smart
8w
Trove
5w
EVERYWEAR
5w
Queue Index
2w
First Order
2w
The System
2w
The Pattern
2w
Project timeline - each column is one week
Portfolio
Culture Brief
Newsletter
Buggy Smart
Trove
EVERYWEAR
Queue Index
First Order
The System
The Pattern
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