Last updated: 2026-03-26
This is my now page which represents what I’ve been up to in the last year.
Eli and Ian are both growing up so so fast. We are currently potty training Eli. It’s going well!
As of Dec. 2025 I became convinced that writing manual lines of code was over. It happened almost over night for me. I couldn’t have imagined this is where we would be. Programming has always required one to continuously learn new frameworks and methods but this is a radical shift. Everything including the tooling we use is changing. Git, CI/CD, build vs buy, throw-away-code, all of it has to be rethought.
I’m not sure how I feel about it all yet. On one hand I’m doing years worth of work in weeks. I’m building more than ever. Thousands of lines of code git pushed daily. I even have agents on crons doing daily improvements to all my projects. I built my own version of Quickbooks in less than 24 hours (Books Done Fast). On the other hand, 20 years of skills are now mostly useless. If I can do this anyone can.
I do feel like I’m uniquely suited for this new world. I’ve always been a generalist and only learned programming to build things. I don’t like coding for the sake of coding. I love to build things. AI let’s me build more faster. I’ve built many projects and products from code to marketing end to end.
I put a pause on my active trading. I have a rule where I don’t trade if index (QQQ) is below 50 day moving average.
I’m interested in this investing style called trend following. But it is more than an investing style. It is a way of life or way to think. It is all about embracing failure, failing a lot, and finding a few huge outlier wins through repeated small bets and failures. Looking at the indie hacker community on X/Twitter I saw success in people that were building lots of small products/startups and failing until they stumble upon success. This aligns with my thinking and is how bloging was for me 15 years ago. I would put out 100 posts and only one or two would become an outlier success. You can’t predict what will resonate with an audience. To that end I decided to build a bunch of products in 2024 knowing most wont make it and that’s OK.
I’m currently working on:
We bought a permanent camp spot near a lake to relax and give our kids a great summer outdoor experience. I’ve always said we would never own a boat but I think we now need to get a boat.