Notes - Tuo Lei

✨Vibe Build📅 Sep 17, 2026⏱️ 3 min read

AI Built My House. The Toilet Was Backwards.

I put a walkable model of my home in a 3D village. The reconstruction was almost identical to the real house. Then I found the toilet facing the wall.

✨Vibe Build📅 Sep 5, 2026⏱️ 6 min read

Codex Turned My Mascot Into 3D

87 minutes got the first rigged mascot. Getting his expressions and gestures to feel like the drawings took more work — including fixing a mouth that turned into a swirl.

🔍Deep Dive📅 May 31, 2026⏱️ 13 min read

I Put a Talking Mascot on My Site: An Agent Chatbot on Cloudflare Workers

A streaming, tool-using AI agent that lives entirely on the edge — built on the pi harness, running on Cloudflare Workers + D1, fronted by a cartoon mascot whose mood tracks the agent loop. Here is the whole architecture, gotchas and all.

✨Vibe Build📅 Apr 26, 2026⏱️ 2 min read

Six Claude Routines Quietly Maintaining My Repos

I pointed Claude Desktop routines at my two vibe-replay folders and let them run on cron. Code-quality sweeps every morning, deps and docs every week — the boring chores I always forget.

🔍Deep Dive📅 Apr 9, 2026⏱️ 10 min read

One Year of Vibe Coding: 878 Sessions Later

399 days, 878 sessions, 52.9k tool calls. What a year of talking to AI instead of writing code taught me about productivity, creativity, and the craft of programming itself.

🔍Deep Dive📅 Apr 3, 2026⏱️ 8 min read

Claude Code vs Cursor: What Your AI Coding Tools Store Locally

One stores everything as plain-text JSONL. The other spreads data across SQLite databases, global state blobs, and checkpoint systems. A side-by-side comparison of how Claude Code and Cursor handle local storage — and why it matters.

✨Vibe Build📅 Mar 5, 2026⏱️ 5 min read

From Prompt to MVP in 53 Minutes — with Full AI Session Replay

I gave Claude Code 8 prompts to create vibe-replay, an open source tool that turns AI coding sessions into interactive replays. 53 minutes, 447 tool calls. Watch the entire process unfold.

✨Vibe Build📅 Jan 17, 2026⏱️ 15 min read

Self-Hosting Excalidraw on Cloudflare Workers + D1

How I replaced a $7/month Excalidraw Plus subscription with a self-hosted solution running on Cloudflare Workers and D1. Free tier, full control, shareable links, and zero Firebase.

✨Vibe Build📅 Jan 12, 2026⏱️ 10 min read

Active Claude: When AI Works While You Sleep

What if Claude could proactively work through your backlog while you focus on other things? ~3 weeks of building, a lot of Claude SDK exploration, and one dashboard later.

✨Vibe Build📅 Dec 31, 2025⏱️ 12 min read

Vibe Coding a 22-Year-Old VB6 Game Back to Life

What happens when you find a game you made as a teenager and try to run it in a browser? ~80 prompts, 14 hours, and one binary hex-edit later.

✨Vibe Build📅 Aug 24, 2025⏱️ 7 min read

This Website Was 100% Vibe Coded

What if I built a website without writing a single line of code or docs? Just talking. 4 sessions, 18 commits, and you are looking at the result.