After wrapping up the last school year, I officially retired my red pen and stepped away from teaching fourth grade. It was a wild ride that left me with a deep respect for teachers, students, and administrators alike. I’ve always been comfortable finishing one chapter without knowing exactly what comes next, and, as always, the …

The WordPress Deployment Problem Nobody Talks About Here’s what most WordPress agencies won’t tell you: deployment is a nightmare. Sure — WordPress powers ~43% of the web — but behind those millions of sites lies a dirty secret: most teams are still deploying like it’s 2010. FTP uploads, manual database exports/imports, hoping you remembered to update …

The Challenge: Investment Deal Distribution at Scale Imagine you’re managing an investment deal that needs to reach hundreds of potential investors. Each investor needs: Researching startups and mapping corresponding markets was traditionally a very manual, time-consuming, and imprecise process, and the same holds for investment deal distribution. The M&A industry is known to be challenging, partially …

I’m a 26-year-old man who enjoys travel, dining, and programming. I live in northern Colorado where everybody loves the great outdoors. I like a good hike but don’t really identify with the stereotype. I don’t ski or snowboard much either. I have, I know it’s great, and I just prefer to abstain. What I love …

I’m a 27-year-old man who enjoys travel, dining, and programming. I live in Shanghai, China where I recently dove into the thrillingly unconventional life available here to willing expats. What I love is working and traveling, both independently and combined. I tried out the extreme combination of the two known as digital nomading back in 2021. I …

I’m an ambitious 20-something, and if you haven’t noticed, this is a homemade website. Handcrafted, artisan, and non-GMO. This is what I do most of the time. I build custom software solutions and help others ideate on theirs. I love a good product, and I love it when an internet thing just works. There’s lots …

When I joined a small blockchain startup in Reno, Nevada, I didn’t think I’d end up leading the team that built its core web application. I just wanted to build better React apps. Two years later, I’d learned lessons about leadership, communication, and simplicity that reshaped how I think about software development. Building in the …

Part of the “Conversations with AI” series where I share interesting and useful discussions with AI assistants. These conversations are lightly edited for clarity. The Problem Now that I’ve posted to my blog over ten times, I ran into the scaling issue of only seeing the ten most recent posts on my homepage. When requesting …

I’m now a fourth-grade teacher in Shanghai, China. This is a significant career shift from software development that I’m glad to be embracing. At the end of 2023, I found myself on the job hunt unexpectedly. Though I wouldn’t have chosen it, it also served as a period of reflection that I welcomed. During this …

Still living in Fort Collins and loving it. Winter is always a great season for productivity and I’m programming at least six days a week. Daily programming usually consists of adding features to my new client platform, small enhancements to other parts of this website, or trying some entirely new tech thing to keep life …