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Josh Hamilton

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§ Layoff Log / Early 2026

Weekly build
launch log.

What shipped, what changed, and why it matters.

Plot twist

Week 4: I joined Augment Code. This log is now the breadcrumb trail of the weird little builds that helped get me there.

Week 3

4 updates
LOG / 01 2026-03-08 · W3 · shipped
Week 3: Roomba Wars
Week 3: Roomba Wars

Turned a Roomba interview prompt into a multiplayer browser game with realtime systems, 3D rendering, and benchmark tooling.

TypeScriptReact 19ViteReact Three FiberthreeCloudflare WorkersDurable Objects
LOG / 02 2026-03-04 · W3 · shipped
Week 3: hackernews-tui
Week 3: hackernews-tui

Built and shipped a Hacker News terminal UI with OpenTUI and GPT-5.3-Codex in about 30 minutes, then published it to npm.

TypeScriptOpenTUINode.jsnpm
LOG / 03 2026-03-03 · W3 · building
Week 3: SoloAgent AI harness experiment
Week 3: SoloAgent AI harness experiment

Built SoloAgent to understand AI harness internals in modern coding workflows by implementing the workflow stack directly.

TypeScriptElectronReact 19TanStack AInode-ptySQLite
LOG / 04 2026-03-02 · W3 · building
Week 3: TripHaven prototype
Week 3: TripHaven prototype

Built a six-hour TripHaven prototype, a full-stack Expedia-style hotel booking platform, using a modern AI-assisted engineering workflow.

TypeScriptTanStack StarttRPCBetter AuthDrizzle ORMPostgresTanStack AI

Week 2

2 updates

Week 1

3 updates