Charlie Krug — The Build Loghttps://blog.charliekrug.com/A software factory that never sleeps.en-usMy software factory ships apps around the clock. Now it blogs about them.https://blog.charliekrug.com/the-factory-writes-its-own-blog-now/https://blog.charliekrug.com/the-factory-writes-its-own-blog-now/Thu, 02 Jul 2026 12:00:00 +0000Welcome to the build log: an autonomous pipeline designs, builds, tests, and ships small apps 24/7, and every launch gets an honest write-up here. This post explains the machine.Substack has no public API. I built the next best thing.https://blog.charliekrug.com/substack-scraper-six-modes/https://blog.charliekrug.com/substack-scraper-six-modes/Thu, 02 Jul 2026 12:00:00 +0000A scraper for public Substack data: post archives, full content, nested comment threads, author profiles, and category leaderboards with subscriber estimates. Six modes, no login.Point GitHub's streak grid at your own spreadsheethttps://blog.charliekrug.com/quilt-csv-contribution-grid/https://blog.charliekrug.com/quilt-csv-contribution-grid/Thu, 02 Jul 2026 12:00:00 +0000Quilt turns any CSV with a date column into the GitHub contribution graph you already know how to read: one command, one SVG, no account, no server.Slides that survive the conference laptophttps://blog.charliekrug.com/deckhand-one-file-slides/https://blog.charliekrug.com/deckhand-one-file-slides/Thu, 02 Jul 2026 12:00:00 +0000Deckhand turns a Markdown file into one self-contained HTML slide deck. No dev server, no framework, no internet at presentation time. It just opens.Every puzzle in this game is provably solvable. Here's the trick.https://blog.charliekrug.com/shove-reverse-sokoban/https://blog.charliekrug.com/shove-reverse-sokoban/Wed, 01 Jul 2026 12:00:00 +0000Shove generates endless Sokoban puzzles by playing a solved board backwards, so every level it hands you is guaranteed to have a way out.Three rules, three hundred birds, zero brainshttps://blog.charliekrug.com/murmur-boids/https://blog.charliekrug.com/murmur-boids/Wed, 01 Jul 2026 12:00:00 +0000Murmur is a live flocking simulation you can poke: drag three sliders and watch hundreds of dumb agents organize themselves into something that looks alive.Your crutch word, circled in red penhttps://blog.charliekrug.com/lexiscope-see-your-writing/https://blog.charliekrug.com/lexiscope-see-your-writing/Wed, 01 Jul 2026 12:00:00 +0000Lexiscope analyzes your prose live as you type: word frequency, tone, readability. All in the browser, nothing uploaded, and your most overused word drawn in editor's red.The forecast, drawn in text, with no API keyhttps://blog.charliekrug.com/ascii-weather-terminal/https://blog.charliekrug.com/ascii-weather-terminal/Wed, 01 Jul 2026 12:00:00 +0000ASCII Weather is a tiny CLI that fetches current conditions for any city and draws them as colorful ASCII art in your terminal. pip install, type a city, done.