https://www.loom.com/share/7f9df3fac9c04ec4a4d45f62f4ca52d3 ^this loom explains it all tl'dr: currently using vs code + claude connected to an obsidian library for a second brain, is this the best way to do it, or should i try something different?

🎉 Meet your new admin: @David Vogel Some of you have been watching this happen in real time. David has been quietly turning his "Show Your Work" posts into one of the most useful threads in this community for months. Resource roundups, deep-dives, honest takes on what's actually working in production. No fluff. No hype. 🛠️ So I gave him the keys. 🔑 David is now an admin of Clief Notes, and he has his own classroom: 🏛️ David's Corner. Go check it out. AI Acronym Overload? Here's the Cheat Sheet - Davids Corner 📂 What's in David's Corner He started with the resource post a lot of you bookmarked last week and has been steadily expanding it. As of right now you'll find: 🔥 Must Have Resources - 🎨 Looking for design inspiration? - 🧠 AI Acronym Overload? Here's the Cheat Sheet - ⭐ Some of My Favorite Resources 📚 Learning for Everyone - 🥊 Obsidian is BLOAT! Batter Up - 💰 Flip the Script — It's all about the $$$ - 👻 Do You Have a Soul? - 🔄 My AI Workflow Evolution 👨‍💻 Developer Resources - 🕵️ LEAKED: Ten Prompts from Experts - ⚡ Introducing the Hermes Stack 🎯 David and Jakes Picks (this one's going to grow) Plus he's curating trusted YouTube channels and a running list of favorite community posts on resources inside the corner. So if you wrote something good about a tool, a stack, or a workflow, that's where it might end up. 👀 He's adding more weekly. If something stops delivering, he wants to hear about it. That's how the corner stays sharp. 🔪 💡 Why this matters The Vault and The Drawing Room give you my methodology. David's Corner gives you a second lens. Same standards (battle-tested, no theory, no marketing slides), different angle. He's been in the trenches with tools and stacks, and he writes about them honestly. ✅ What you can do 1. 🔖 Go bookmark David's Corner in the classroom 2. 💬 Drop a comment under his posts when something works (or doesn't) 3. 📨 Got a resource that should be in there? Tag him. He's curating.

I've always wanted this app called QLab on Windows, it's a mac-only audio and video cueing app used in live performance and really useful for a lot of things but the devs refuse to make a windows version. I've also always wanted to be able to build a self-contained executable app I could hand off and run anywhere. I never had time to attempt to build any of it until now. ## Spec before scaffold Shout out to @Ari Evergreen and @Noah Taylor , I applied the Spec writing guidelines and vibe coding rules they shared and that really helped write a strong spec document. I didn't have enough background to choose a stack on my own, laying out the spec gave Claude enough to work through the tradeoffs and help me make the call. This also helped break down the build into 5 phases that made it manageable, worked with the $20 tier Claude session limits, and in 1-shot built the image display portion of the program. ## Use case determining build order I wasn't sure how long it would take me not having built a full app before, so I prioritized feature build out by what I expected to be used the most. That single constraint resolved phase order, feature priority, and stack choice simultaneously. ## Full app built in a day while multi-tasking at work What I didn't expect was to have the app working after phase 1. That was super exciting, and what was even cooler was I was able to continue building in the background while at work, answering questions and tweaking behavior as needed while doing my normal work. By end of day the full app was built — a fully self-contained .exe, QLab on Windows, tailored exactly to how I work. --- attached is short video demo and a simplified step by step of how to think about building an app for yourself. This is assuming you've build the file system architecture from Foundations. Thanks so much to @Jake Van Clief and Ari and Noah and @David Vogel , in the last 2 weeks it feels like the world is completely different now.

Wanted to try something fun and used the Remotion studio workflow to make an animation for my dnd group, something that I couldn't have imagined having the time to do in the past

Got my boss to take me seriously on what AI could potentially do for us. Been pushing for a website / branding update for forever. Short story since this is public, everyone agrees it needs to be done but everyone thinks it will be expensive. We were in a meeting and he mentioned possibly needing to add a new service and trying to minimize the task and then feeling defeated at the prospect of the task> But then I said, well actually I already redid our website, and showed him the prototype I did using Jake's course. Everyone was floored at how good it could be and how it changes everything for something they had been putting off for years. Still needs approval from CEO but at least the ball is rolling and people are excited about the possibilities.