
Building OPL’s website, then connecting the admin
I built the full Other People’s Leisure website with Codex. Now I can ask our Hermes assistant to update it from Telegram, with merch fulfilment being prepared for our next release.
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Things I’ve used, built with AI, or learned enough from to put down again.

I built the full Other People’s Leisure website with Codex. Now I can ask our Hermes assistant to update it from Telegram, with merch fulfilment being prepared for our next release.
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I built Terrace Archive with Claude Code and Codex to sell my football memorabilia without giving myself another job. It brings the photographs, catalogue and order admin into one system.
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A pocket-sized voice capture device, integrated with Hermes Agent. When an idea comes to me on a run, I press a button and speak. The transcript and summary end up in Obsidian.
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I helped someone turn a spoken account of her working day into a handover draft, ready to review and copy into Outlook when she gets home.
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My ThinkPad is my AI and research machine. My MacBook is my music machine. Giving each a clear role helps me keep the work separate.
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I built a planning prototype because storing a task wasn’t enough. I wanted to trust that it would come back at a time when I could do something about it.
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CJ was an earlier version of my personal assistant setup. It grew out of wanting useful conversations and decisions to survive beyond a single chat.
Read the storyI helped someone who was flagging emails for later but still carrying them around in her head. The useful change came from connecting tools she already had.
Read the storyPreparing my expenses sheets used to take me around 90 minutes. Once ChatGPT had learned the repeatable workflow, I found it could do that work in around ten.
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