I love what I do. I love my job. I'm not a genius, and I'm not a world-class, renowned authority on anything I do. I'm just a guy, but I like to think I'm good at what I do, because I love it, and that makes me spend time learning and refining my skills. I also know I'm lazy when it comes to oth...

A few years ago I finally made the jump from Windows to Linux permanently. At first it was because I got stung by a comment I read online, and it applied to me, that said something like "Everyone says they use Linux, but no one actually uses Linux". Yes, I used it for work, and I used to tinker wi...

So, I set up a laptop for my wife with Linux — Aurora Linux, by the way. I wrote about why I landed on it in another post. I set her up with Aurora on her laptop because I had already installed a Hermes agent on her Windows computer and I didn't really like how it worked there. I think it's bett...

I spent the day yesterday playing with Hermes. At some point I was using OpenClaw, but I decided to go with Hermes instead because it felt more polished, more professional. I still don't have a very professional or useful thing to do with it yet, but I think it can be incredibly useful once I figu...

By now we've all heard that AI is going to take away a ton of jobs — that maybe software engineers will disappear, or at the very least the market won't be what it used to be. There are lots of layoffs, and honestly, I don't know exactly what to do with my life at this point. I still have a job, a...

There's something I really should have thought about when I bought an outdoor security camera. I got a Reolink one — works fine most of the time, just like the indoor cameras — but during the winter it just stopped working. I think it was the temperature. I'm in Utah, so when it gets cold, the lit...

I came to that realization yesterday as I was contemplating my usage of Windsurf and Claude Code, both for work and for my personal projects. I realized it's been a while since I actually wrote some code myself. I've been working on pipelines, security, infrastructure, and a little bit of coding —...

So I've been thinking a lot about AI lately, 'cuz it's the hype these days, and I keep thinking some sci-fi scenarios from movies are kind of plausible now. I was watching YouTube, and there were a few things I came across that I think could create the opportunity for scary AI scenarios — and we...

All right, let's get started. I've been putting off this blog for a couple of months because I never feel like I have the perfect thing to write about.

I recently posted here about what I’ve been learning regarding waitlists and idea validation. Turns out, I didn’t really have a good waitlist setup for the app I’m building with my college friend. The current version was just a plain paragraph, an email input, and a button—not very descriptive o...