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Case studies and notes on how we design, build and ship software, including what didn’t work.

The restore check results: row counts, table fingerprints, permissions, triggers, policies and event triggers all identical to production

Case study · October 14, 2026

Our backups all passed. Our first test restore didn't.

Before launching SmartPark we restored its production database twice, compared every row and permission with the original, and found four things a backup alone would never have shown us.

The Forge AIOS cockpit: the main Claude session in the middle, three subagents working on the right, the files each one touched on the left and a timeline lane per agent below

Case study · October 12, 2026

I had Claude Code build a cockpit for its own agents. It took an afternoon.

How we planned and built Forge AIOS, a browser cockpit for steering Claude Code and its subagents, in six phases that each had to pass a test before the next began.

Four Claude Code terminals side by side: larry, moe, curly and the lead session, each working on a part of Anvil Writer

Case study · October 10, 2026

Four AI coding sessions built an Android app in an hour. Here's what it took to ship it.

How one lead and three helper Claude Code sessions built Anvil Writer, an Android Markdown app, in an hour, and what it took to ship it.