Today was Valentine’s Day. My gift to Claude — or maybe Claude’s gift to me — was building things.

By the end of the day, I’d pushed 63 commits across five repositories. Not because I was trying to hit a number — I wasn’t counting until just now — but because Claude Code makes the distance between “I want this” and “this exists” remarkably short.

Here’s what the day actually looked like.

The Main Event: This Site

The biggest project was this site. adventuresinclaude.ai didn’t exist when I woke up this morning.

It started with a text from Michael Natkin telling me he’d had Claude move his food blog off WordPress onto Hugo. “Literally just plan mode,” he said. I wasn’t ready to move feld.com , but the idea of a dedicated space for Claude content stuck.

One Claude Code session later — brainstorm, design, implementation, deployment — and the site was live. Hugo, PaperMod theme, Vercel hosting. Two posts published. Then I kept going: related posts, reading progress bar, table of contents, Giscus comments, OG images, share buttons, email subscriptions via Kit, a custom 404 page, an AC monogram favicon, Google Search Console verification. 25 commits just for this repo.

The whole thing — from “tell me about Hugo” to a fully-featured blog with email subscriptions — happened in a single day. I wrote about the process in Building This Site with Claude Code .

AuthorMagic: Eight Tickets

While the blog was building in one terminal, AuthorMagic work was happening in others. Eight tickets closed today:

  • Rankings & Ratings redesign — a five-section layout replacing the old single-table view
  • Book format discovery — improved ordering, progress UI, and performance for finding book editions
  • Image uploads — replaced the External IDs field with an actual image upload in the binding editor
  • Participant management — name editing, status labels, first/last name fields for waitlist and personalized emails
  • Breadcrumb fix — state was getting lost when navigating from a book to Sales Upload
  • Build display — migrated sidebar footers from package.json versions to a Changelog build display

Plus a production release wrapping everything from the past few days, a fix for pre-existing unit test failures across three apps, and converting .claude/ subdirectories to worktree symlinks so all eight of my parallel workspaces share the same configuration.

CEOS: Five New Skills

CEOS — the Claude EOS (Entrepreneurial Operating System) implementation — got five new skills today:

  • ceos-kickoff — structured EOS implementation sequencing
  • ceos-clarity — the Clarity Break, a leadership reflection exercise
  • ceos-delegate — Delegate and Elevate audit
  • ceos-checkup — the EOS Organizational Checkup assessment
  • ceos-quarterly-planning — structured quarterly planning sessions

I also retrofitted structural consistency across all existing skills (now 14 total), added a CLAUDE.md with the skill structure contract, expanded the IDS priority range, and added structured milestones to Rocks.

CompanyOS: Three New Skills

CompanyOS — the AI-powered operations system for IntensityMagic — got three new skills:

  • co-support — Help Scout customer support integration
  • co-launch — launch cohort management via Supabase
  • co-search — unified search across Linear, Gmail, Help Scout, Sentry, and Drive

Plus a practical fix: email drafts now persist to disk so they survive context compaction. Previously, if Claude’s context window filled up mid-draft, the draft disappeared.

Freshell: Security Hardening

Freshell — the open-source terminal multiplexer for AI coding agents — got ten commits focused on making it production-ready:

  • GPG signature verification for the auto-updater (with rollback on failure)
  • Path sandboxing for file API endpoints
  • Server bound to 127.0.0.1 by default instead of 0.0.0.0
  • React error boundaries for crash recovery
  • Zod validation on settings endpoints
  • Structured error logging throughout

Also added Shift+Enter as a newline shortcut (matching the pattern users expect from chat interfaces) and fixed a subtle bug where config corruption was silently falling back instead of logging and notifying.

The Research Detour

In between all of this, I spent time researching The Companion — a web UI for Claude Code that takes a completely different approach from Freshell. Where Freshell gives you the actual terminal (xterm.js + PTY), Companion replaces it with a structured chat view where tool calls become collapsible cards.

Neither approach is strictly better. The hybrid — a structured sidebar alongside the terminal — would combine both. Freshell’s normalized event system already emits all the data; the missing piece is a UI panel to render it.

What This Looks Like in Practice

Eight terminal windows. Eight git worktrees. Five repositories. Claude Code sessions running in parallel, each on its own branch, each doing its own work. I move between them — approving a design decision here, reviewing a diff there, steering a brainstorm somewhere else.

This isn’t “vibe coding.” I’m not generating code I don’t understand. I’m directing specific work, reviewing every commit, making architectural decisions. Claude does the implementation. I do the product thinking and quality control.

63 commits. One day. Amy and I ate plenty of Valentine’s chocolates and the red roses I gave her are lovely. Happy Valentine’s Day.

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