# nine four (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover nine four. Page: Feed: --- ## [AI in July](https://nathanpitman.com/posts/ai-in-july/) _2026-07-31 · Nathan Pitman_ Kicking off a monthly log of what I'm actually doing with AI, at work and at home. All the things I've built, broken, and learned. In July: a conversational training tutor, a lead enrichment API, a web player for animations trapped on 90s floppy disks, and turning a CRO audit into a set of redesigned web pages in hours instead of weeks. ## [Going it Alone Revisited - 20 Years Later](https://nathanpitman.com/posts/going-it-alone-revisited-20-years-later/) _2026-07-18 · Nathan Pitman_ Looking back on the "Going It Alone" Q&A-style interview series I ran 20+ years ago, I've tracked down the same five self-employed friends for a 2026 follow-up - 7 new questions and a whole two decades of perspective! ## [Introducing 'Fedi Follow Catch'](https://nathanpitman.com/posts/introducing-fedi-follow-catch/) _2026-06-20 · Nathan Pitman_ I’ve got two separate social graphs right now — one on Bluesky, one on Mastodon — and no real sense of how much they overlap. I follow people on one who I probably also want to follow on the other, but I had no way of seeing the gap. So I asked Claude Code to help me figure out a way to actually see it: compare both follow lists and surface who I was missing on each side. ## [Tim Langdell Has Respawned](https://nathanpitman.com/posts/tim-langdell-has-respawned/) _2026-06-14 · Nathan Pitman_ Tim Langdell — the trademark troll who spent decades threatening anyone using the word 'edge' near video games — has filed yet another federal complaint against Mobigame, despite his previous losses vs Future Publishing, Electronic Arts, and Mobigame themselves. ## [The Librarian](https://nathanpitman.com/posts/the-librarian/) _2026-06-11 · Nathan Pitman_ Childhood trips to the local library sparked unexpected discoveries. Now Google’s AI-driven search promises frictionless answers, but what do we lose when the librarian stops pointing at shelves and starts handing us pre-digested ones? ## [Managing Email Signatures Still Sucks...](https://nathanpitman.com/posts/managing-email-signatures-still-sucks/) _2026-05-21 · Nathan Pitman_ Sixteen years ago I wrote three sentences about email signatures being a mess. Opportunity missed? ## [Closing the chapter on ExpressionEngine](https://nathanpitman.com/posts/closing-the-chapter-on-expressionengine/) _2026-05-13 · Nathan Pitman_ A reflection on ExpressionEngine and the 52 add-ons I built over a decade of agency work, prompted by Ryan Masuga's LinkedIn post marking the 16th anniversary of devot:ee. ## [New Energy Economy in Open Transport Tycoon Deluxe](https://nathanpitman.com/posts/energy-economy-in-open-transport-tycoon-deluxe/) _2026-05-09 · Nathan Pitman_ A full energy economy mod for OpenTTD that introduces nuclear and renewable industries over time — built for my own amusement. ## [Scratching the itch to build a game](https://nathanpitman.com/posts/scratching-an-itch-to-build-a-game/) _2026-04-11 · Nathan Pitman_ From BBC Micro to browser - how nostalgia for text adventures, a dog-eared Ken Williams memoir, and some late-night Replit sessions led to a mobile-friendly port of Colossal Cave Adventure, built entirely on iOS. ## [Rediscovering making things](https://nathanpitman.com/posts/rediscovering-making-things/) _2026-03-22 · Nathan Pitman_ After five years away from writing code, AI tools reignited a passion for building things — and changed what it means to be a solo maker forever. ## [CLI-first decentralized compute (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/WjiNOwoZcFBs) _2026-03-21 · **Sponsored**_ Run and pay spare GPUs from the CLI — transcode, coinpay (DID+escrow), infernet (AI). ## [Back From the Dead: Resurrecting nathanpitman.com After a Decade in the Dark](https://nathanpitman.com/posts/back-from-the-dead-resurrecting-nathanpitman-dot-com-after-a-decade-in-the-dark/) _2026-03-19 · Nathan Pitman_ The story of how nathanpitman.com — a personal blog that went dark when its host shut down — was recovered from the Wayback Machine and rebuilt with Astro.