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How I built a full direct-booking vacation rental website for my brother-in-law Terry using Claude Code and a 6-agent AI team: Next.js 16, Supabase, Resend, and a surprisingly capable admin dashboard for a non-technical host.
Building a pixel-art retro dashboard to command 7 AI agents on an M4 Mac Mini: System Health, Agent Fleet, Team org chart with role card modals, Telegram monitoring, cron jobs, and more.
A technical deep-dive into rebuilding a 1990 Windows 3.1 artillery game as a modern web app with Next.js 15, Canvas 2D, Web Audio synthesis, 6 weapons, 4 terrain biomes, AI personality, and a tri-specialist security audit. From empty repo to 20-feature modernization in two sessions.
How I turned a functional web port of a 1991 game into a full-featured modern 4X strategy game across four feature phases and a wiring plan, using Claude Code as the primary development engine.
Three features that turned a static blog into something closer to a content platform: draft staging via GitHub API, threaded comment replies, and a swipeable LinkedIn carousel built in React.
A technical walkthrough of 16 site improvements shipped in a single Claude Code session: reading progress bars, dark mode, fuzzy search, a contact form, code playgrounds, a guestbook, achievement badges, and more.
How I cataloged 13 custom agents, 23 learned skills, 10 rules, 8 bash scripts, and 2 MCP servers into a searchable, filterable showcase page for my blog. One session. One new route. One background research agent doing the heavy lifting.
How I used Claude Code and four parallel AI agents to rebuild Second Conflict, a forgotten 1991 Windows 3.0 space strategy game, as a modern web app. Complete with reverse-engineered game mechanics, 261 passing tests, and more nostalgia than I knew what to do with.
How a basic page-view tracker evolved into a 9-section, 26-component analytics command center with heatmaps, scroll depth tracking, bot detection, and API telemetry. Includes the reasoning behind every upgrade and enough puns to make a data scientist groan.
One cybersecurity nerd, one AI coding assistant, one week, 117 commits, 24 pull requests, 17 blog posts, 410 tests at 98% coverage. This is the story of building a production website from scratch with Claude Code, including every mistake, meltdown, and meme along the way.
How I made each weekly digest newsletter unique by using Claude Haiku to generate two-paragraph intros with historical tech facts, holiday callouts, and graceful fallback when the API fails.
How I built a subscriber-gated comment system with thumbs up/down reactions, admin moderation, and a one-time welcome email blast, including the PowerShell quirks and Vercel WAF rules that nearly blocked everything.
How I built a full newsletter system for this site with secure subscriptions, HMAC-verified unsubscribes, branded HTML emails, and a Vercel Cron that sends a weekly digest every Monday. Includes the WAF rule that broke everything and the firewall tightening that followed.
A technical deep-dive into implementing production-grade SEO for a Next.js site, covering dynamic sitemaps, JSON-LD structured data, OpenGraph, Twitter Cards, RSS feeds, canonical URLs, and everything Google needs to actually find your website.
A security professional audits his own code: blog posts leaking private repo names, query-string secrets in browser history, SSRF vectors, and error messages handing attackers the database schema. 19 findings and the journey to fix every one.
How I built a custom analytics system with interactive visualizations, IP intelligence, and a Leaflet world map, using Next.js, Neon Postgres, and Claude Code. Includes the full Vercel Analytics integration and why custom tracking fills the gaps.
A detailed, hour-by-hour account of my first day with Claude Code - starting with Ollama frustrations, discovering Opus 4.6, building a complete website, and deploying to production. 30 commits, 4 repositories, and one very long day.
A walkthrough of building cryptoflexllc.com from scratch - the tech decisions, the component architecture, and what I learned about modern web development along the way.
A detailed, step-by-step guide to vibe coding a production website from the ground up using Claude Code, from someone whose last website ran on Apache with hand-written HTML. Every service, every config, every command.