Recommendations

These are some things I’ve enjoyed and would recommend to others, with a brief explanation of why I think they’re worth your time.

AI

See this separate page.

Career Advice

• Do Cheap Tests - Work on progressively larger projects in an area to figure out if you enjoy a career.
• Become a Person Who Actually Does Things

Musical Theatre

• “Hadestown” by Anaïs Mitchell. A sung-through American folk-inspired emotional journey. It won 8 Tony Awards and they’re all deserved.
• Everything by Dave Malloy, but particularly “Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812”, “Preludes” and “Three Houses”.

Apps/Tools

• Obsidian, Notion and Trello (deprecated) for note-taking.
• Beeper for combining all my message apps.
• Super Productivity for task management. It has scheduling, time tracking, categories, boards. Everything I need.

Technology

• Ruby on Rails - Still the most developer-friendly web framework out there.
• astro.build - What I used for this website. Light and simple.
• Kamal - Massively simplify your deployments.
• Omakub - Great developer setup for Ubuntu 24.04+
• Cline - Autonomous coding agent for Visual Studio Code