Working on Three Fronts: My Week 35 Recap
Week 35 (24-30 August 2026) was all about working on three fronts at once. Captain Hook is closing in on a version ready to show the world, RadekGrabarek.com gained a new subpage and better handling o…
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Habit Dots: When "Personal Software" Means You Just Clone What You Need
Habit Dots is an honest, shameless clone of the HabitKit app, maybe 75% of its most important features. I'm not hiding it: this isn't a project I intend to develop commercially or sell anywhere. I tre…
I Built My First Serious Project: Captain Hook
TL;DR: I'm building Captain Hook, an AI tool that helps YouTube creators write good video intros, those first crucial seconds that decide whether a viewer stays or bounces (titles and thumbnails matte…
Focus Space v2: What Happened When I Gave the AI a Free Hand
I built the first version of Focus Space step by step: a spec (PRD) first, then the implementation stages one after another, properly by the book. While I was working on it, Anthropic, the company beh…
Focus Space: My Space-Themed Spin on the Focus App
I've had this idea in my head for about eight years. There's a whole category of apps that help you concentrate in a simple way: you start a session, pick a duration, and for that stretch of time you…
How I'm Learning to Code with AI (the Technical Version)
Let's start with the context and the constraints I imposed on myself. The whole path is five phases of increasing technical complexity, arranged so that each project introduces exactly one new dimensi…
How I'm learning to code with AI - and building real apps along the way
For the next two or three months I'm doing something I've called my "Summer of Code": learning to program by building apps that get progressively harder. Not courses, not tutorials disconnec…