I Think I May Have Accidentally Built a Website

It all started because I couldn't find a thimble. Now there's an AI trying to conquer the world and a game where you stab fingers. Naturally.

There is a website called Stab the Finger.

It has subdomains.

It has experiments.

It has an AI research operation.

It has an artificial intelligence attempting to conquer the world.

It has an abandoned social network.

It has a half-built real estate management application.

And, as of very recently, it has a video game in which you stab fingers.

I feel like I should explain how this happened.

The short answer is:

I have no idea.

The slightly longer answer is that it started with a hat.

I Think I’ve Been Training for Leeway for 20+ Years

Apparently this is what 20 years of messing around on the Internet looks like.

I didn’t realize I had a pattern.

For years, I’ve been making weird little things on the Internet. Not businesses. Not startups. Not products. Sometimes not even particularly useful.

Just: What if I made this?

And then actually making it.

Most of them drifted into the sediment layer of old projects — forgotten, archived, or buried under newer experiments.

Until I started talking to an AI about Leeway.

And suddenly all those old projects looked less like random detours and more like early training runs. A long, accidental apprenticeship in building tiny worlds.

This is the (abbreviated) archaeology.

The Ping-Pong Architecture: How I Built AI for Busy Humans

The Ping‑Pong Workflow Behind AI for Busy Humans

Building a website used to feel like a solitary construction project. You’d open a blank CMS, stare at the cursor, and hope the “About” page didn’t read like a tax form. But with my latest project, AI for Busy Humans, the process felt less like construction and more like a fast-paced game of ping-pong.

Not just me and an AI — but a three-way volley between Gemini, Copilot, and the part of my brain that still remembers how Hugo templates work. (OK, that last bit is slightly untrue: Copilot actually suggested using Hugo and walked me through the setup, including the first batch of pages that would later be refined.)