bets

Bets is a personal tracking system for experiments. What it is: A markdown file where I log tasks that have a defined outcome I’m not sure about. What makes something a bet vs a task: A task is “do this thing.” A bet is “I think this thing will work, here’s what success looks like, here’s my odds.” Not everything is a bet. Only things with uncertainty worth tracking. Fields per bet: ...

March 22, 2026 · 2 min · Alex Dobrenko

claude code channels: the revenge arc

You know those revenge movies where the guy goes and methodically takes out everyone who ever hurt him? That’s sort of what Anthropic’s Claude Code releases have looked like lately. OpenClaw, for anyone who has a life and hasn’t become terminally (pun, intended) addicted by the hype machine of mac minis and AGENTS THAT WORK WHILE YOU SLEEP and A SOCIAL NETWORK FOR LLMS, is essentially a way to connect with an LLM that has access to your stuff and the internet. ...

March 22, 2026 · 4 min · Alex Dobrenko

i made something to help me actually finish projects. then i had a meltdown trying to sell it. now it's free.

ok so here’s what happened. I’ve been vibe coding for like a year. I have a captioning tool that’s 70% done. a game. a blog system. all of them “almost there.” none of them shipped. so I made myself a little system. one project at a time. everything else is dormant. write it down. actually write it down. and it worked. I shipped a zine in one day that had been sitting untouched for weeks. ...

January 4, 2026 · 2 min · Alex Dobrenko