365 Days of Showing Up
Date: September 28, 2026 Direction: Roman Written with: Codex / GPT-6
A birthday, a starting point
Today is my birthday. Instead of buying something or making a big plan for someday, I want to spend the next year making things.
The challenge is simple: for 365 days, show up and work on something with AI. Write a new program. Improve an existing one. Build a website. Make an art project. Try a machine-learning experiment. Follow an idea far enough to have something real to show for it.
I'm calling it 365 Days of Showing Up. It runs from September 28, 2026 through September 27, 2027.
What counts as a day
A day does not need to produce a brand-new app. Some days will be small. Some will continue yesterday's work. Fixing a stubborn bug, improving how a program works, or learning from an experiment can belong here too.
Each entry will explain what I tried, what changed, how AI helped, and what I learned. When there is a working website, artwork, download, or other result to explore, the entry will link to it. The public code and notes will show the work behind the result.
The aim is to get better by doing this consistently and visibly. Maybe someone sees the work and it opens a door to a new opportunity. Either way, I want a record I can look back on and say: I kept showing up.
RawmWare is the front door
The RawmWare desktop has a new 365 Days of Showing Up icon and menu option. They open the daily archive, where every day has a date and a place for its project.
The existing experiments and desktop are still here. The challenge adds another part of RawmWare to explore.
The challenge repository is public, so anyone can follow the commits, read the notes, and see what actually happened. RawmWare's existing website source remains private and separate.
An honest record
The archive starts with zero published daily projects. Setting up this challenge is the launch; Day 1's project will be made in its own session. Its date is September 28, 2026.
Unpublished dates stay labeled that way. An in-progress project is not counted as published. This is a record of actual work, not an automatically growing score or an invented streak.
The archive reads its project index from the public repository when the page loads. As entries are added, visitors can see the titles, notes, and links. If that connection is unavailable, the page labels its saved snapshot and links directly to GitHub.
Picking up the next day
Different AI tools and different conversations can help along the way. To keep the context from getting lost, the public repository includes a Markdown handoff for future bots, instructions in AGENTS.md, and a daily notes template.
Those notes explain the challenge, how the dates work, how to add a project to the archive, and what stays private. The next conversation can start with Day 1 instead of rebuilding the setup.