The Crafter's Lab Toolbox
Original workshops, field notes, and working systems for solo developers building thoughtful products with Apple technologies and AI teammates.
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Learning path
Build with AI
Improve how you plan, delegate, code, and ship with AI.
Repeatable process → tool mastery → real-project delegation → reusable capability
AI Workflows
Repeatable processes that connect tools, decisions, and automations into a useful result.
Claude Code
A structured curriculum for understanding and operating the full Claude Code stack.
Codex
Real product tasks traced from scope and delegation through review, tests, and outcome.
AI Skills
Small, verified skill packages that add one reusable capability to an agent.
Learning path
Build and operate agents
Construct capable agents, give them real work, and run them reliably.
Build the harness → assign the work → operate the system → own the runtime
Pi Agent
Build agent machinery through extensions, custom tools, orchestration, and inspectable execution.
Hermes Agent
Give a personal agent a real responsibility, inspect its result, and judge where it helps.
OpenClaw for Devs
Configure, connect, deploy, secure, and maintain an agent system in day-to-day use.
Local AI
Test models and agents on local hardware for privacy, performance, and practical usefulness.
Learning path
Apple Product Lab
Turn Apple platform capabilities into thoughtful, reliable products.
Intelligent feature → development feedback system → platform opportunity → durable craft
Apple Intelligence
Prototype and evaluate intelligent features inside a real Apple-platform product.
Xcode Harness
Improve the build, test, Simulator, debugging, and project-context signals agents depend on.
WWDC
Timely judgment on what Apple announced, what is ready, and what deserves a first build.
Modern SwiftUI
Make stronger code and architecture decisions with modern SwiftUI APIs and patterns.
Learning path
Run the solo studio
Build the operating system, judgment, and assets behind a one-person product studio.
Operate the studio → make better decisions → design the product → start from working code
Notion Ops
Build and run the live Notion systems behind planning, releases, knowledge, and administration.
Solo Dev Journey
Honest, evidence-backed lessons from real product decisions, launches, setbacks, and results.
Figma Foundations
Create and adapt editable design foundations, UI systems, and App Store assets.
App Blueprints
Explore complete running starter projects, their architecture, and the places to make them your own.