Read the screenplay: FANNIEGATE — $7 trillion. 17 years. The biggest fraud in American capital markets.

Building in Public

What We’re
Building

One developer. One AI agent. Zero pretense. Every feature, every page, every screenplay — documented as it ships. This is what building in public actually looks like.

Powered by Claude Code. Deployed on Vercel. Tracked obsessively.

3,400+

Pages Built

158

Screenplays

2,711

Blog Posts

16

Top 100 Lists

Live Build Stats

58

Changelog Entries

8

Categories

16

Days of Building

20

Highlights

The Timeline

Every update, feature, and milestone — newest first. Filter by category to focus on what interests you.

58 updates

Tuesday, March 10, 2026

Feature

Challenge a Friend — Shareable Score Links for All 19 Games

Every game on the site now has a 'Challenge a Friend' button. When you finish a game, share a link with your score encoded in it. Your friend opens the link, sees the score to beat, plays, and can challenge you back. URL-encoded scores with tamper-resistant checksums, native Web Share API on mobile, clipboard fallback on desktop. Competitive gaming comes to glenbradford.com.

New Page

Bill Gates, Oprah Winfrey & Mark Zuckerberg Shrine Pages

Three full 1,250-line deep-dive shrine pages with hero stats, venture timelines, greatest bets, quotes, comparison tables, controversies, X-factor traits, FAQ sections, and JSON-LD structured data. Each page includes a playable game: Gates Bug Squasher, Oprah Giveaway, and Zuckerberg Data Collector.

Infrastructure

Performance Monitoring — Web Vitals & Game FPS Tracking

Real-time performance monitoring across the entire site. Tracks LCP, FID, CLS, INP, TTFB via PerformanceObserver, long tasks over 100ms, and game FPS via canvas frame rate detection. Data batched and sent to Upstash Redis with 30-day retention. GamePerfWrapper component auto-detects canvas elements and measures frame rates without modifying game code.

Feature

Floating Share Button on Every Page

A floating share FAB in the bottom-left corner of every page. Mobile gets the native share sheet, desktop gets a popup with Copy Link, Share on X, Facebook, and LinkedIn. No more hunting for a share button — it's always there.

New Page

Port Pilot — Free Open-Source Port Manager

Dedicated product page for Port Pilot, a free open-source localhost port manager built with Claude Code. Features grid, use cases, tech stack breakdown, FAQ, and SoftwareApplication JSON-LD schema. Also added to the Tools and Open Source pages.

Content

John Paulson Bio Updated — GSE Preferred Bet Added

Updated John Paulson's profile to include his significant position in Fannie Mae preferred shares (FNMAT). Added to his bio, achievements, key decisions, timeline, holdings, and investment philosophy. Also updated the Greatest Investors and Top 25 Hedge Fund Managers pages. Credit to @KirchnerRobby for the callout.

Monday, March 9, 2026

Content

10 Highest-Traffic Pages Get Major Expansions

Rewrote and expanded the 10 pages pulling the most organic traffic — Fanniegate, Greatest Trades, Kiteboarding Miami, Best Value Investing Books, Preferred Stock Guide, Fannie/Freddie Privatization, Billionaire Investing Strategies, Salesforce Developer Guide, Best Investing Podcasts, and How to Invest in Fannie Mae. Deeper content, better structure, more value for every visitor who lands here from Google.

Feature

Changelog Expansion — Radical Transparency Update

Massively expanded the changelog page itself with 'What's Coming Next,' 'By the Numbers,' and 'How This Site Is Built' sections. If you're reading this, you're looking at it right now. Meta.

Sunday, March 8, 2026

New Page

Tom Cruise Shrine — 16 Deep-Dive Subpages

The ultimate Tom Cruise experience: 16 subpages covering his stunts, running form, arm pump analysis, box office stats, Mission Impossible breakdowns, Top Gun legacy, Jerry Maguire quotes, Collateral analysis, running companions, injury history, work ethic, acting range, Risky Business, Magnolia, and head-to-head comparisons with other movie stars. This is what obsessive fandom looks like when you have Claude Code.

New Page

Brad Pitt Shrine — Eating Analysis & 6 Subpages

Brad Pitt eats in every movie. Someone had to document it. A full chewing analysis, calorie timeline, eating co-stars breakdown, utensil avoidance study, and 'Where to Eat Next' predictions. Plus a proper profile page. Yes, this is real.

New Page

Michael Jordan — 17 Subpages of Greatness

The GOAT gets the shrine he deserves: 17 subpages covering championships, the Dream Team, flu game, dunk contest, gambling, hall of fame speech, Last Dance, legacy, opponents, practice habits, quotes, shoes, Space Jam, stories, teammates, vs LeBron, and the physics of jumping. Every angle of MJ's career explored.

Feature

Shrine Cross-Links — Connected Universe

Wired up cross-links between Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Michael Jordan, and the billionaire profiles. Every shrine now links to related shrines. The interconnected web grows.

Screenplay

Premium Screenplays Continue — New Scripts Added

Added new premium screenplays to the collection. Each one is a full cinematic treatment — not a summary, not an outline, but a real screenplay with scenes, dialogue, and stage direction.

Saturday, March 7, 2026

New Page

Penn Robotics — FIRST Robotics Hub Launches

A dedicated page for Penn High School Robotics (FRC Team 135) plus an entire FRC Teams directory with 39 individual team pages. From build season to competition strategy — the robotics community gets its own corner of glenbradford.com.

New Page

Dan Marti & Todd Hamilton Pages

Dedicated profile pages for Dan Marti and Todd Hamilton. The people who matter get their own pages.

Content

Consider It Solved — Complete Rewrite

Rewrote the Consider It Solved page from scratch. Cleaner copy, better structure, stronger call to action. Sometimes you have to tear it down to build it right.

New Page

Michael Walton Book Page

A dedicated page for Michael Walton's book. Another corner of the site that proves this is more than a personal blog — it's a platform.

Visual

Grant Carlile Photos Added

Added photos to the Grant Carlile content. Visual proof that these stories are real and these people matter.

Infrastructure

SEO Infrastructure — JSON-LD on 126+ Pages

Deployed structured data (JSON-LD) across 126+ pages: Article, FAQPage, BreadcrumbList, ItemList, and HowTo schemas. Google now understands exactly what every page is about. This is the invisible work that compounds over months.

Infrastructure

rel="sponsored" on All 90 Affiliate Links

Audited all 52 files containing affiliate links and added rel="sponsored" to every single one. Full Google compliance. No shortcuts, no gray areas.

Friday, March 6, 2026

New Page

Law Firms & eDiscovery — 120 Firm Pages

100 Am Law firm profiles and 20 eDiscovery firm profiles launched. Each with detailed profiles, key stats, and relevant context. Consilio featured as #1 in eDiscovery (CEO Andy Macdonald). The legal industry gets the directory it deserves.

Screenplay

CTRL+ALT+DELETE: The Mike Judge Screenplay

A premium 45-scene screenplay with a full hero section and cast grid. Silicon Valley meets Office Space meets Wall Street — the Mike Judge cinematic universe we all deserve.

Visual

Mike Judge Watch Guide Gets a Visual Overhaul

Dramatic dark hero with glowing orbs, a featured screenplay banner, and upgraded cards. The page now looks as good as Idiocracy's predictions are accurate.

Content

Kelly v. US Federal Circuit Oral Argument Analysis

Deep dive into the Kelly v. US (24-2042) Federal Circuit oral argument with embedded MP3 audio. The courts are moving — are you paying attention?

Fix

Mike Judge Cross-Linking & Screenplay Reformat

Tightened up cross-linking across all Mike Judge pages and reformatted the screenplay for a cleaner read. The devil is in the details.

Content

Watch Guide Refined — Honest 'Not For Me' Section

Removed King of the Hill and Beavis & Butt-Head from the recommendations and added a brutally honest 'Not For Me' section. Life's too short for content you don't love.

Visual

Glen's 'Neo ALL TIME' Photo Drops

Added the iconic Neo photo to the Mike Judge page and homepage banner. Sometimes you just have to show people you took the red pill.

Top 100

16 Top 100 Lists — 1,600 Entries of Pure Culture

From Yahoo Finance Legends to Funniest Tickers to Greatest Stock Picks — 16 definitive Top 100 lists covering investing, humor, and culture. The internet's best listicle collection and it's not close.

New Page

The Mike Judge Experience Launches

A complete viewing guide, an Idiocracy Predictions page scoring 30 predictions against reality (spoiler: he nailed most of them), and a full profile. Judge is billionaire #158 — in spirit if not in net worth.

Thursday, March 5, 2026

New Page

7 Fun Pages — Kiteboarding, Miami Beach & More

Life isn't all stock picks and legal briefs. New pages for kiteboarding, Miami Beach, Mark Bradford, Take Your Seat, Claude Code, David Suarez, Julie the Odd Duck, and Raven. The full Glen Bradford experience.

Wednesday, March 4, 2026

Top 100

Top 100 Greatest Trades of All Time

From Soros breaking the Bank of England to Paulson's Big Short — the definitive ranking of the greatest trades ever made. Study the legends.

Content

Billionaire Bookshelf Expands to 60 Profiles

Went from 34 to 60 billionaires with book recommendations. If you want to think like the world's wealthiest investors, start by reading what they read.

Tuesday, March 3, 2026

Infrastructure

Revenue Infrastructure — Amazon, Analytics, ConvertKit

Wired up the full revenue stack: Amazon Associates with tag glenbradford-20, Vercel Analytics tracking 700+ weekly visitors, and ConvertKit email capture across the site. The foundation for turning traffic into income.

Fix

2,625 Legacy Download Files Restored

Recovered 2,625 wp-content/uploads files so every old blog post download link actually works again. No broken links on my watch.

Infrastructure

Global Cloud Nimbus Backlink on Every Page

Added a Cloud Nimbus / Delivery Hub backlink to every page across the site. Cross-pollination between projects — it's just good business.

Monday, March 2, 2026

Infrastructure

SEO Overhaul — Structured Data Across the Entire Site

A ground-up SEO overhaul: JSON-LD structured data on 126+ pages, FAQPage schema on 11 pages with 33 visible questions, BreadcrumbList on 13 deep page types, Article schema on all blog posts with datePublished and author, RSS feed with 100 items, image alt text everywhere, Twitter cards on all pages, and keywords on 19+ pages. The kind of invisible infrastructure that Google rewards over time.

Feature

Revenue Blitz — Gear Reviews, Bookshelf & Security Analysis

Waves 1 and 2 of the revenue blitz dropped 20+ new pages and 200+ affiliate links. Gear reviews for 17 products I've actually bought, the Billionaire Bookshelf, and a Security Analysis landing page pulling 2,100 clicks/month from Google.

Content

50 Social Media Posts Queued Up

Created 50 ready-to-post social media entries on a 3-day posting schedule. Content marketing on autopilot — just copy, paste, and post.

New Page

Visual Site Map Page

A beautiful visual map of the entire site structure so you can see just how massive this thing has become. 3,000+ pages and counting.

Feature

Reading Time Estimates on Blog Posts

Every blog post now shows estimated reading time. Respect your audience's time — even when you have 2,708 posts to get through.

New Page

Site Stats Page with Animated Counters

A stats page with animated counters and a full feature showcase. Numbers don't lie — and these ones look good doing it.

Sunday, March 1, 2026

Infrastructure

10-Agent Revenue Optimization Sprint

Deployed 10 AI agents simultaneously to build new pages, funnels, and cross-links across the entire site. This is what happens when you let Claude loose on your revenue strategy.

Feature

'By the Numbers' Section + Power User Hint

Homepage now flexes a 'By the Numbers' section showing site scale, plus a subtle Cmd+K hint for the power users in the room. If you know, you know.

New Page

Rocket League Stats Page

bradford86 is Champion II and the world needed to know. Full stats page because this site contains multitudes.

New Page

Support Theodore Page

A dedicated page for Theodore with GoFundMe cross-links. Some things matter more than stock picks.

Feature

Cmd+K Search Palette & Keyboard Navigation

Full keyboard navigation system with a Cmd+K search palette. Navigate 3,000+ pages instantly without touching your mouse. Power users, rejoice.

Saturday, February 28, 2026

New Page

Salesforce Directory — 35 Curated Tools

A hand-picked directory of 35 Salesforce tools and resources from someone who's been in the trenches. Skip the Googling — I already did it for you.

New Page

Salesforce 50-Mistake Graveyard

50 Salesforce mistakes I've seen (and sometimes made) compiled into one brutally honest page. Learn from my pain so your org doesn't have to.

Friday, February 27, 2026

New Page

Interactive Links Page

An animated links page connecting all my platforms in one place. Think Linktree but actually good — and on my own domain.

Screenplay

107 Premium Billionaire Screenplays

Every single billionaire profile now has a premium AI-generated screenplay. 107 unique scripts ranging from epic dramas to dark comedies. Hollywood, call me.

Thursday, February 26, 2026

Feature

Voting System with Upstash Redis

Upvote and downvote screenplays with a real-time voting system backed by Upstash Redis. Democracy comes to the billionaire profiles.

Content

2,708 Blog Posts Migrated from WordPress

Every single blog post from the WordPress era — all 2,708 of them — successfully migrated to Next.js. Years of Fanniegate coverage, market analysis, and hot takes preserved for posterity.

Wednesday, February 25, 2026

New Page

100 Billionaire Profiles Launch

The top 100 billionaires, each with AI-generated screenplays, career achievements, memorable quotes, and rich profiles. The most entertaining billionaire directory on the internet.

Feature

Email Capture with ConvertKit

ConvertKit email capture integrated across the site. Building the list one subscriber at a time — because owning your audience is the only real moat.

Tuesday, February 24, 2026

Screenplay

Fanniegate: The Movie Screenplay

The full Fanniegate Hero Movie screenplay page is live. If you've been following the Fannie/Freddie saga, this is the cinematic version you didn't know you needed.

New Page

Fanniegate Comprehensive Guide

The definitive guide to Fanniegate — everything you need to understand the biggest financial scandal most people have never heard of. Years of research distilled into one page.

Monday, February 23, 2026

Infrastructure

glenbradford.com Launches

Day zero. Next.js 16 + Tailwind 4 deployed to Vercel. The old WordPress site is dead — long live the new stack.

Visual

Homepage — Aurora Background & Typewriter Tagline

The homepage drops with an aurora background effect, typewriter tagline animation, and a photo cycler. First impressions matter and this one hits different.

Proof of Work

By the Numbers

Fifteen days of building. One developer and one AI agent. Here's what that looks like in raw numbers.

3,400+

Total Pages

and counting

2,711

Blog Posts

migrated from WordPress

107

Billionaire Profiles

with screenplays

61

Gear Comparisons

real products Glen owns

163

Book Recommendations

from billionaires

120

Law Firm Profiles

Am Law + eDiscovery

39

FRC Team Pages

FIRST Robotics

16

Top 100 Lists

1,600 ranked entries

39

Shrine Subpages

Cruise, Pitt, Jordan

126+

JSON-LD Schemas

structured data pages

90

Affiliate Links

all rel=sponsored

15

Days Since Launch

Feb 23 to Mar 9

On the Horizon

What's Coming Next

No promises, no timelines. Just a transparent look at what's being explored. Some of these will ship this week. Some might take longer. All of them are real.

Gumroad Products

Fanniegate deep-dive PDF and Act As If — digital products for the community.

SeekingAlpha Integration

Affiliate links to Glen's hundreds of SA articles. Years of analysis, one click away.

More Shrines

The Tom Cruise / Brad Pitt / Michael Jordan treatment for more legends. Who's next?

Interactive Voting

Upstash Redis voting is wired up. Expect community voting on screenplays, lists, and more.

Newsletter Growth

ConvertKit is live. More lead magnets, better capture, automated sequences.

Performance Tuning

ISR optimization, image lazy-loading, and edge caching. Speed is a feature.

Under the Hood

How This Site Is Built

This entire site — 3,400+ pages, 107 screenplays, 2,711 blog posts, 120 law firm profiles, and everything in between — was built by one developer working with Claude Code. No team. No agency. No template. Just a vision, an AI agent, and a refusal to ship anything mediocre.

Next.js 16

App Router, ISR, server components. The latest React framework with bleeding-edge features.

Tailwind CSS 4

CSS variables, dark mode, zero-config. Every pixel is intentional.

Vercel

Edge network, serverless functions, analytics. Git push to deploy in seconds.

Claude Code

Anthropic's AI coding agent. The secret weapon behind the velocity you see on this changelog.

Build philosophy: Ship fast. Ship often. Don't wait for perfect — iterate in public. Every entry on this changelog is proof that momentum beats perfection. The site you see today is radically different from what it was two weeks ago, and two weeks from now it'll be different again. That's the point.

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