I have this folder on my Mac mini. I've been dumping notes and thoughts into it for years. Now I'm turning it into something useful — a second brain that I can search and share.
Step one was building the pipeline to get those notes onto my website automatically. This week I did that.
What happened
I wrote a small program — basically a robot that sits quietly in the background and watches a folder called Published/. Every time I put a new file there, the robot notices, saves it to the project's history, and sends it up to the website. No buttons to click. It just happens.
I also set it up to start automatically every time the Mac mini boots, so I don't have to think about it.
And then, because I also needed something to fill this blog with content, I built a second robot that reads my recent coding work and writes draft posts about it. That robot ran and produced 13 posts. Including one that explains what the robot does.
That's this post, more or less.
Why
I'm building a second brain — a living collection of everything I know and am working on. The goal is to get it online so I can share it, link to it, and eventually run local AI experiments against it on the Mac mini.
The watcher is the publishing half of that system. Without it, I'd have to manually copy files to the website every time I wrote something. That's not happening. Automation or nothing.
PR: https://github.com/StevieIsmagic/stevie-second-brain/pull/1