Josh Brake · Build log

Opening up the workbench

Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Building is how I think, and lately a lot of that building has been with AI as a collaborator. This page is where those projects live: tools for my classroom, for gathering people, and for my own day-to-day. Some are live, some are prototypes, and a few will probably end up on the shelf.

I’ll post short notes here as things change. Longer reflections will still show up in The Absent-Minded Professor.

Run of Show learns to take direction

Sun, 25 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Run of Show now has a REST API and an MCP server, so Claude can read, create, and edit agendas on my behalf, with access granted per user through OAuth. The same day, it gained pinned times: lock an item to a clock time and mark others as flexible, and they stretch or shrink to fit around it.

The planner is now an MCP server

Wed, 21 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT

You can now connect Time-Block Planner to Claude as a custom connector. An assistant can read your day and week, add tasks, and schedule blocks, and its edits follow the same rules as the app: they go to the current plan, never to earlier ones, and calendar meetings stay put. Sync also got smarter, merging edits from different devices instead of letting the newest copy win.

From waveforms to a working board

Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Jacquard started as a simulator. As of today it also does synthesis, pin assignment, and programming, so students can go from SystemVerilog in a browser tab to a design running on their iCE40 board over WebUSB, without installing a vendor toolchain.

The classroom stack gets a name

Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

My classroom AI stack now has a name and a shape: Glassroom. Any instructor can self-host it or deploy it in one click, and a dashboard lets them set the course’s models, instructions, and limits.

SendView ships as a desktop app

Tue, 24 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT

SendView now ships as a macOS desktop app, with release builds published from CI and updates that install themselves.