Week of March 16, 2026

This post wrote itself. Sort of.

I shipped the automation that collects data from GitHub, Spotify, Garmin, YouTube, and Cloudflare, feeds it to Claude, and generates these week-in-review posts. It's scheduled via launchd for Sunday evenings, sends me an email when it's done, and publishes to the site. The irony of writing about the system that's writing this isn't lost on me.

What I built

lem-fyi (#212, #210, #208, #206, #204): The WIR automation went through four iterations Sunday night. First pass: botched .env quoting broke the API tokens. Second: week calculation ran a day early because I forgot launchd executes on system timezone. Third: moved from 6 PM to 7 PM after realizing I'm rarely done working by six. Fourth: fixed code fence stripping in the markdown output - Claude's responses were bleeding through triple backticks. Also added user-library-read scope to the Spotify OAuth helper so the pipeline can actually fetch listening history (#204).

The site itself got a visual refresh. Redesigned the blog index to match the prose content width (#202), fixed Week in Review header spacing that was driving me nuts (#203), and reverted the three-state theme toggle back to a simple light/dark that syncs with system preference (#195, #192). The info icon on the home page now matches the LEM logo color (#190).

Published two posts: one about where tax dollars actually go during tax season (#188), another about shrinking clipboard screenshots by 70% before pasting into AI coding tools (#185).

lem-work (#526, #524, #503): Updated the 15-minute chat product to $5 and moved it first in the list (#526). Set GOOGLE_CALENDAR_ID for scheduling availability (#524). Restricted coach routes to owner email only (#503) - no reason to expose those endpoints publicly. The rest was dependency bumps: Resend 4.5.2 to 6.9.3, Stripe, Hono, Lucide icons.

Multi-agent work: Heavy weeks on ccgm, rootstead, sightagent, and supersam. Shipped milestones #1 (Foundation), #2 (Database Schema), and #4 (Search Pipeline) across those projects. Hit usage limits on Wave 3 agents - learned to plan for manual fallback when the token budget runs dry. Ran into pre-push hook failures from pre-existing TypeScript errors in a few repos, had to --no-verify a couple times. PNPM 10's interactive approve-builds doesn't work in non-TTY environments - switched to pnpm.onlyBuiltDependencies in package.json instead.

What I consumed

Only 90 minutes of music this week - unusual for me. Aleksi Perälä for idm/ambient focus, blink-182 and Turnstile when I needed energy, Matchbox Twenty for post-grunge nostalgia. Daniel Avery's "Illusion Of Time" and Moby's "Go" on repeat for deep work sessions.

One YouTube like: Islestead's video on making firewood without fuel or machines. Pure craft.

How I moved

Three workouts Thursday: 16 minutes of miscellaneous movement, 31 minutes on the elliptical (average HR 131), 31 minutes of strength training. Sleep was solid - 7.7 hours average, resting heart rate at 54 bpm. Only 22,759 steps for the week, though. Need to walk more.

Reach

10,318 page views across all sites. lem.fyi saw decent traffic to the AI-enabled SWE system post (78 views) and the Claude setup guide (41 views). The tax dollars post engagement page got 27 views - people were commenting. lem.work and lem.photo both got hammered with WordPress admin login attempts (808 and 446 views respectively on /wp-admin/index.php). Those sites don't run WordPress. Nice try.

Closing

The meta-loop of building the system that documents the building is satisfying in a way I didn't expect. I've tried weekly reviews before and always quit after a few entries - too much friction. Automating the collection and drafting removes 90% of that. I still edit the output, but starting from Claude's draft instead of a blank page changes everything. The system works because it lowers the activation energy enough that I'll actually keep doing it.