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I write here about building and running software on my own, mostly about the decisions that turned out to matter more than they looked at the time.

Lately that has meant a lot of AI workflow: how I actually use Claude Code and Cowork, where my AI budget goes once I sat down and measured it, and how I stopped building our RV routes by hand. On the building side, why I am migrating Knowledge ERP from my own framework to Laravel and Filament, and why I built my own website platform in the first place.

I stopped building our RV routes by hand

Published on Aug 7, 2026

Planning one RV travel day used to cost me about two hours in Google Maps. Handing the whole constraint problem to Claude Cowork turned that into a few minutes, and the routes are better than the ones I was building.

I measured where my AI budget actually goes

Published on Jul 31, 2026

I had a confident theory about which projects were expensive. I was wrong four separate ways, and the thing I was rationing turned out to be one percent of the total.

The six-book series I've never read

Published on Jul 31, 2026

I used Claude Cowork to write a six-book LitRPG series and render it as a cast audiobook. Four hours of finished audio cost $22.09.

How I actually use Claude Code and Cowork

Published on Jul 14, 2026

Where AI agents actually fit in my work: content pipelines, batch jobs, and API testing, plus the parts I still do myself.

Start with the process, not the feature list

Published on Jul 14, 2026

The best software projects start with a process that takes too long, not a feature list. How I scope business software, with real examples.

Why I'm migrating Knowledge ERP from my own framework to Laravel and Filament

Published on Jul 14, 2026

Why a solo developer with a working custom PHP framework is moving Knowledge ERP to Laravel and Filament, and what the migration looks like half a year in.

Why I built my own website platform

Published on Jul 14, 2026

Small business websites are a few pages and a blog. Here's why I built Swiftrics to serve them as static files, and what running my own sites on it taught me.