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One Week with Claude Code: Building an AI-Powered Publishing Pipeline
After seven days of building with Claude Code and my AI assistant Gus, I shipped an end-to-end blog pipeline, an SEO auditor, and a chatbot — most of it while cleaning my office.
Revenant Hollow Never Stopped Being Alive
I tabled this project before the pandemic. Years later, three signals stacked up at once: an old friend's question, dormant YouTube numbers out-pacing my paid work, and the speakers I'd sourced years ago mounted in a haunt I walked through. Then Meow Wolf chose Niantic. Then 8th Wall went open source. Here's why I'm picking it back up.
What Crawling Upwork Every Day Taught Me About Where to Go Next
How automating Upwork job searches with an AI agent revealed gaps in my skills, validated my business strategy, and surfaced a hosting opportunity I should have seen coming.
AI Neuroticism and the Tidal Forces of the Singularity
It's not the singularity that spaghettifies you. It's the tidal forces — the differential rate of change that's tearing engineers and founders apart. Here's how to step out of the hype-vs-trolls feedback loop.
Stop Nickel-and-Diming Your AI Tools and Go All In
How a desperate deal with a bad client led to a Claude Pro Max subscription that changed everything. Why spreading across cheap AI subscriptions is holding you back, and what happens when you commit.
Claude Code in My Pocket: A Two-Hour Internal iOS App
Two-hour build, no App Store, Claude Code in my pocket through a VPN. Why I'm building internal tools instead of shipping products.
Over-Automation Is the New Over-Engineering
Why the smartest AI strategy is knowing where to keep humans in the loop. From social posting friction to browser scraping, lessons from building a cross-platform content analytics system.
Cemetery Management Application: GPS Mapping, AR Integration, and Autonomous Maintenance for Funeral Homes
Exploring the development of a custom SaaS cemetery management app with GPS grave plotting, AR-assisted maintenance, and autonomous drone/UGV patrols, tying into Revenant Hollow's location-based AR ecosystem.
Revenant Hollow: Integrating Technology into Location-Based Horror Experiences
An interactive, location-based entertainment experience that incorporates mixed reality, IoT, and automation to enhance theatrical horror attractions and seasonal Halloween markets.
Exploring the intersection of AI and content creation through an agentic blog bot that amplifies creativity, captures ideas, and builds tools that reflect personal voice and vision.
A comprehensive guide to creating a digital presence that validates professional expertise through biographical blogging, generative optimization, and strategic networking for freelancers and professionals.
A detailed account of transitioning from over three years as a cable installation contractor to becoming a full-time freelance web developer. Covers misclassification challenges, rediscovering programming skills, and the breakthrough moment leveraging Upwork to escape manual labor.
A reflection on early freelance web development experiences, focusing on WordPress specialization after transitioning from DocWorks. Covers plugin customization, client relationships, reputation management, and the dynamics of remote freelance work in the early 2010s.
A biographical account of early software development experiences at a doctor's office, working on the DocWorks electronic medical records system. Covers the evolution from Perl-based flat files to a hybrid system incorporating Ruby on Rails, PHP, and MySQL across multiple operating systems.
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