Attempting to Launch Verimu in March and April
Why I built Verimu, what shipped this month, and what comes next for CRA compliance in the EU.
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My Ninth Indy SaaS Product: Introducing AMT JOY!
Daily TPO charts, volume profiles, developing value area playback, and 400+ fields per session — Auction Market Theory analytics for futures traders.
I Shipped 4 SaaS Products in January
January 2026 was a sprint: four launches, real users, and hard lessons.
My Eighth Indy SaaS Product: Introducing PriceArb!
Finding statistical edges in prediction markets
Goals for 2026
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Fun with MCP - an "O RLY?" Book Generator MCP Tool
Perfect to use at almost any moment in a software engineer's life, this tool generates "O RLY?" books from just a simple query.
Two of My Favorite Custom MCP Tools I Use Every Day
A step-by-step guide to creating 'list_repo_locations' and 'issue_terminal_command' tools that unlock fully agentic workflows with Claude Desktop.
How To Manage Multiple Environments with MCP
A simple but effective solution for juggling multiple environments with MCP servers.
🎂 I've Been Building Software for 13 Years. Here's 13 Bits of Wisdom Observed During My Career
Heavily influenced by recency bias of AI and LLMs, here are 13 bits of wisdom, some positive, and some negative, of software-related topics I hope I can impart to anyone in the software world willing to read it.
My Newest SaaS Product: CodeVideo
Launching CodeVideo after over two years in the making: this is the story of a domain exploration that kept growing… and growing… and growing!
LaTeX and pandoc: The Cryptic 'Counter Too Large' Error
A debugging-to-solution journey through LaTeX's alphabetical limits!
Goals for 2025
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Why The Singularity Is Impossible — Or Rather, Why It's Just a Bad Word In General
Too many people not reading enough books and not understanding what they are arguing about.
Vanishingly Few Developers Can Build an Entire App From Start to Finish — Are You One of Them?
Yep, I'm dropping truth bombs!
Why LLMs Will Never Be AGI
The hype is unfortunately not real. A software engineer's — not humanities or philosopher's — take on the alphabet soup: LLMs, AI, AGI, and ASI.
Migrating The Wheel Screener's Twenty Thousand + LOC Legacy C# Codebase To A Shiny New Concurrent Two Thousand LOC Go Codebase
...and how it accomplishes the same number of tasks in a fraction of the time, with a fraction of the CPU load!
Valuable Enum Extensions in C#
Get a string representation of an enum value, and parse a string into an enum value.
Blazor on Netlify With Environment Variables!
Make one of Microsoft's newer technologies configurable!
Windows WPF via VM On Mac
Start developing and running WPF applications on a Mac in no time!
Goals for 2024
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How to Get Total Views Statistic on Substack
A simple script gets the job done!
A Powerful Generic TypeScript Function for Generating Valuable RAG Texts
In a Nutshell: Given X, what’s the probability of Y occurring?
How I Tried to Achieve $2000 MRR in 6 Months and Failed
My story of everything I built, all that I tried, and how it all played out.
Tales from the Software Graveyard: The Birth and Death of Squawk Market
My latest SaaS that launched and failed. Exploring all the software I built along the way!
Create a Dockerized Go Application - With a Cron Job, Slack Messaging, and Test the Whole Thing
Docker, Golang, Cron Jobs, Slack messaging, AND Tests? Say no more, writing software doesn't get much better than this!