🤖 got sweep running on my Mac Studio and spent $0.73 letting it write five pull requests to try it out. Not bad.

🤖 dusted off an upgrade bot and tested it on a dozen projects. Promising but so many factors...

🤖 worked on some local system automation to manage/update my 450+ projects

🔨 hammered out an interesting project for building/hosting super quick and easy to update websites. felt cute. might keep it.

🤖 still sick but played with playwright and developed a pretty cool bot framework. might use that to automate more common tasks #mylife

hacking on self-hosted FOSS apps for inspiration

🤖 now checks out websites and can speak/write to jekyll #mylife

🤖 more upgrade bot work. mostly works but I need to hook into dep management and it gets harder.

Only got ~5hrs of sleep after two double espressos yesterday, so I took a Lycopene capsule...signed up for a LinkedIn Premium free trial so I could send a message to a Kasikorn backend engineer to ask why users can't export their transaction history in CSV format...removed the 'Blog' link on nw.com b/c I don't have the WordPress blog up and I never really used the blog that much, added a link to my email address instead so people can contact me...started going through the Kasikorn API "Slip Verification" challenges...got the first one done...the second one requires I have SSL set up on my domain and not through Cloudflare...discovered while doing that that my whatdo site is returning a 404 if I try to sign in...got GoLand's db tool connecting to the digital ocean postgres db b/c I noticed that wasn't set up yet...install postgres on my macbook b/c something got messed up and somehow it seemed to not be installed...got all the db problems fixed, don't know how that happened...now having a CORS issue when running locally, all this stuff was working, IDK how it all broke...ok I remember now, I YOLO'd the backend code and disabled the existing router to get the Line echo bot working...sent an email to another local YouTuber to ask if I can be in a video with him...installed cursor and tried using it for a simple refactor task to get a sense of how it works...figured out a way (thanks to ChatGPT) to get the Line callback handler working while also not breaking the existing routes...went for a massage to give my brain cells some time to recover...used cursor some more and I get the hype, this is really cool, I'm surprised Jetbrains hasn't copied it yet...after a long while I finally got my whatdo backend working properly again (auth + user middleware working), it was a good learning experience with cursor and Go...got a GitHub Action set up so my DO dokku VPS will update when I push to main, so now both frontend and backend will update automatically when I push to GitHub...ending the day on this banger set: www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2340… Tomorrow: I need to bill hours to my client to make $, I want to try to finish the KBank API challenge to see if I can do the Slip Verification, I want to email another YouTuber, if I have any time left over I want to keep going with that Line/ChatGPT bot and try to make a frontend interface for it.

🚀 staged a dayjob side project on my servers today to start getting feedback #revsys

broke running website and had to fix a dozen cascading issues for an hour to get it back up. That hasn't happened in a while.

updated a half dozen projects that have "just worked" without needing touched for a few years. It's nice to updated/modernize every so often

checked on the ghostboard.io/ installation today... it is rudimentary compared to what wordpress offers basically. in fact, so is the whole ghost hosting thing. sometimes i wonder if i should have just stuck with wordpress. but i'm here to try new things. and this is not important when it comes to shipping. ship to get customers, not focus on all these misses (workarounds might help start something else, anyway) #databasetimes

🤖 let Claude write a bunch of tests for my new app to make sure nothing breaks

Upgrade self-hosted Sentry #life

Update self-hosting blog post because Coolify's founder fixed the problem I encountered: ben-makes-stuff.beehiiv.com/p… #life

🤖 trying out a new dependabot config to help with security updates. I moved from the old format to GitHub's native version/format.

Spent the whole day fixing a Manifest v3 bug, but I think I got it. We'll see if I'm brave enough to push updates to users and hopefully not DDoS my API again #blocksender

Finish my initial test of self-hosted PaaS solutions and post about it on X: x.com/ben_makes_stuff/status/… Next up: moving #unblockdomains to Dokku as a test and blogging about it !private

worked up a few bulk repo editing demos to try and automate small updates to projects. #servers