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Homebrew CMS for the Win
Holy crap, it’s so much faster than Wordpress.
Holy crap- my brand-new homegrown CMS is SO MUCH faster than WordPress. It’s also very small & specific to my needs, which is why.
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Agentic Video with Final Cut Pro – The Jury’s Out
You'd Say Anything : Scott Fegette
Dropping a new single: "You'd Say Anything" - AI-produced video, but the music is 100% organic.
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Project Chordale: Advanced Chord Theory for Everyone
Add harmonic spice to boring chord progressions and songs with a fun lil' iPhone app. Coming soon.
A spice rack for your songwriting — chord theory that flows from your Apple Watch to your iPhone to your Mac.
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Two Book Manuscripts – Complete!
My first sci-fi novel's first draft wrapped up Friday.
Two manuscripts finished in one week: a sci-fi novel and a book about building with AI.
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Radcap 1.0.4: You Asked For It
MP4 format support, lots of bug fixes.
You sent the bugs and the feature requests. Here's the release that answers them.
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Grapfel: Free AI Chatbot for Mac
Apple Intelligence, unlocked.
A free, local AI chatbot living in your Mac menubar — running entirely on Apple silicon.
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Radcap: Record anything, instantly.
Radcap: Record anything, instantly.
Radcap is a simple social video recorder + voice-activated teleprompter I created for MacOS X Tahoe. It runs silently in your menubar until inspiration strikes. 100% secure, 100% free. You're welcome.
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Claude Design Launches- Is Figma Dead?
Will Claude Design kill Figma?
The hypebeasts are all up in speculation this week about the launch of Claude Design, and it's inevitable assassination of Figma as the UX/product design app of choice. Are the rumors substantiated? Is design cooked? No, and in fact, this just means designers have even MORE options than ever before.
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Claude + Figma MCP = Agentic Creative Workflows
Claude + Figma via MCP = design harmony.
Claude + Figma via MCP = complete harmony between my design surface and my codebase... even when I'm working faster than my better judgement.
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Spirits in the Night (ROADS)
Originally written & recorded by the Boss.
ROADS doing the Boss justice. I've just joined on bass — didn't play on this one, but expect fresh tunes soon.
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Flying FPV Drones Freestyle
Hop in the co-pilot's seat.
It may be tight out there for rogue fliers, but do you wanna see (and hear!) what it's like to fly an FPV drone with a lazy form of insanity? Absolute mayhem, absolute fun.
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2026: New Year, New Direction
A personal and professional re-hello world, of sorts.
Sometimes you gotta go for a clean reset. I left LinkedIn and started Brilliant Mindworks.
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