Build Daily
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Every page on Build Daily, set in printed order — the standing pages, the logged days, the work-in-progress, and the lines off-paper.
Sections
5
Internal pages
74
Off-paper
3
Set in
Spectral · JBM
Front matter
— the masthead and the standing pagesPosts
— field notes set in long form- 01/posts/backwards-compatibility-is-the-job→Filed · Jul 25, 2026Backwards compatibility is the job
- 02/posts/multitenancy-without-leaking→Filed · Jul 25, 2026Multitenancy without leaking
- 03/posts/on-call-and-the-postmortem-that-keeps-the-account→Filed · Jul 25, 2026On-call and the postmortem that keeps the account
- 04/posts/soc-2-from-the-engineers-seat→Filed · Jul 25, 2026SOC 2 from the engineer's seat
- 05/posts/the-300-row-security-questionnaire→Filed · Jul 25, 2026The 300-row security questionnaire
- 06/posts/loop-engineering-without-the-cloud-bill→Filed · Jun 30, 2026Loop engineering without the cloud bill
- 07/posts/anatomy-of-an-ai-product→Filed · Jun 27, 2026Anatomy of an AI product
- 08/posts/base-wants-to-be-the-chain-for-ai-agents→Filed · Jun 27, 2026Base wants to be the chain for AI agents
- 09/posts/build-an-ai-product→Filed · Jun 27, 2026Build an AI Product
- 10/posts/dspy-vs-langchain-for-typed-llm-programming→Filed · Jun 27, 2026DSPy vs LangChain for typed LLM programming
- 11/posts/prompt-engineering-was-never-the-bottleneck→Filed · Jun 27, 2026Prompt engineering was never the bottleneck
- 12/posts/the-voice-gate-that-grades-me-too→Filed · Jun 27, 2026The voice gate that grades me, too
- 13/posts/what-is-dspy→Filed · Jun 27, 2026What is DSPy?
- 14/posts/running-agents-on-the-go→Filed · Jun 20, 2026Running agents on the go
- 15/posts/you-cant-optimize-what-you-cant-measure→Filed · Jun 16, 2026You can't optimize what you can't measure
- 16/posts/building-with-ai-vs-building-ai-products→Filed · Jun 13, 2026Building with AI is not the same as building an AI product
- 17/posts/the-best-startup-idea-might-be-a-boomers-retirement→Filed · Jun 3, 2026The best startup idea might be a Boomer's retirement
- 18/posts/do-you-need-a-multi-agent-system→Filed · May 28, 2026Do you need a multi-agent system?
- 19/posts/smith-the-coding-agent-learning-to-own-my-sdlc→Filed · May 28, 2026Smith: the coding agent learning to own my SDLC
- 20/posts/apache-airflow-what-it-is-and-how-we-use-it→Filed · May 27, 2026Apache Airflow: What It Is and How to Use It
- 21/posts/the-airflow-dags-that-run-paiddaily→Filed · May 27, 2026The Airflow DAGs that run paiddaily.io
- 22/posts/when-to-reach-for-n8n-vs-writing-the-orchestrator-yourself→Filed · May 26, 2026When to reach for n8n vs writing the orchestrator yourself
- 23/posts/why-i-picked-neo4j-over-a-vector-store-for-my-agent-system→Filed · May 26, 2026Why I picked Neo4j over a vector store for my agent system — and when I'd flip
- 24/posts/seo-with-a-feedback-loop→Filed · May 24, 2026SEO with a feedback loop
- 25/posts/slice-1-of-the-voice-loop-is-live→Filed · May 24, 2026Slice 1 of the voice learning loop is live
- 26/posts/teaching-an-agent-to-draft-in-my-voice→Filed · May 24, 2026Teaching an agent to draft in my voice
- 27/posts/the-draft-to-beta-to-main-workflow→Filed · May 24, 2026 · builddaily-ioThe draft-to-beta-to-main workflow
- 28/posts/when-to-fine-tune-an-llm→Filed · May 23, 2026When to fine-tune an LLM — and when to skip it
- 29/posts/adobe-developer-api-what-can-we-build→Filed · May 21, 2026Adobe's Developer API — what can we build with it?
- 30/posts/storybrand-the-engineers-read→Filed · May 14, 2026StoryBrand, the engineer's read
- 31/posts/retroactive-brandscript→Filed · May 11, 2026The retroactive BrandScript
- 32/posts/three-projects-one-mission→Filed · May 10, 2026Three projects, one mission
- 33/posts/when-the-limits-hit→Filed · May 10, 2026When the limits hit — eight hours with Pi and qwen3.6
- 34/posts/a-local-coding-agent-on-pi→Filed · May 8, 2026A local coding agent on Pi
- 35/posts/sage-daily-tarot-and-vedic-astrology→Filed · May 8, 2026Sage Daily — tarot and astrology, daily
- 36/posts/the-personal-agent→Filed · May 8, 2026The Personal Agent at builddaily.io
Projects
— what is being built, with receipts- 01/projects/eightballsports-com→Project · active · started Jun 14, 2026Eightball Sports — free boards that settle off the real score
- 02/projects/elevatedaily-io→Project · active · started Jun 6, 2026Elevate Daily — a private daily practice for getting measurably better
- 03/projects/database→Project · active · started May 28, 2026The Postgres behind paiddaily.io
- 04/projects/paiddaily-io→Project · active · started May 12, 2026Ship Paid Daily — the desk for full-time income traders
- 05/projects/builddaily-io→Project · active · started May 8, 2026Build Daily at builddaily.io
- 06/projects/sagedaily-io→Project · active · started May 8, 2026Ship Sage Daily — a tarot + astrology agent with its own engine
- 07/projects/truthers-io→Project · active · started Apr 29, 2026Truthers — forensic financial intelligence from the public record
- 08/projects/commercialgasketservices-com→Project · active · started Apr 19, 2026Commercial Gasket Services — software for a trade that runs on paper
Resources
— protocols, SDKs, tools — and the books I’ve applied- 01/resources/aider→Tool · watching · updated Jul 24, 2026Aider
- 02/resources/claude-code→Tool · applied · updated Jul 24, 2026Claude Code
- 03/resources/cursor→Tool · watching · updated Jul 24, 2026Cursor
- 04/resources/grok-build→Tool · watching · updated Jul 24, 2026Grok Build
- 05/resources/xai→Platform · watching · updated Jul 23, 2026xAI Grok API
- 06/resources/langchain→Sdk · watching · updated Jul 14, 2026LangChain
- 07/resources/langgraph→Sdk · watching · updated Jul 14, 2026LangGraph
- 08/resources/langsmith→Tool · watching · updated Jul 14, 2026LangSmith
- 09/resources/openwiki→Tool · watching · updated Jul 14, 2026OpenWiki
- 10/resources/duckdb→Database · watching · updated May 28, 2026DuckDB
- 11/resources/postgres→Database · applied · updated May 28, 2026PostgreSQL
- 12/resources/redis→Database · reference · updated May 28, 2026Redis
- 13/resources/sqlite→Database · reference · updated May 28, 2026SQLite
- 14/resources/airflow→Tool · applied · updated May 27, 2026Apache Airflow
- 15/resources/bge-reranker→Tool · watching · updated May 24, 2026bge-reranker
- 16/resources/dspy→Sdk · applied · updated May 24, 2026DSPy
- 17/resources/huggingface→Platform · watching · updated May 24, 2026Hugging Face
- 18/resources/langfuse→Tool · watching · updated May 24, 2026Langfuse
- 19/resources/llamaindex→Sdk · watching · updated May 24, 2026LlamaIndex
- 20/resources/neo4j→Database · applied · updated May 24, 2026Neo4j
- 21/resources/nomic-embed-text→Tool · watching · updated May 24, 2026nomic-embed-text
- 22/resources/ollama→Tool · applied · updated May 24, 2026Ollama
- 23/resources/sentence-transformers→Sdk · watching · updated May 24, 2026sentence-transformers
- 24/resources/unsloth→Sdk · watching · updated May 24, 2026unsloth
- 25/resources/vale→Tool · watching · updated May 24, 2026Vale
- 26/resources/aerodrome→Protocol · reference · updated May 22, 2026Aerodrome Finance
- 27/resources/base→Chain · reference · updated May 22, 2026Base
- 28/resources/coinbase-developer-platform→Platform · reference · updated May 22, 2026Coinbase Developer Platform