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My Seventh Year as a Bootstrapped Founder

Seven years ago, I quit my job as a developer at Google to create my own bootstrapped software company. Every year, I post an update about how that’s going and what my life is like as an indie founder.

I sold my company

My most significant professional development of the last year is that I sold TinyPilot, the company I founded in 2020.

My wife and I wanted to start a family, and I didn’t think I could be the sole manager of a seven-person company and a good father to a newborn. I found a buyer whose vision for the company aligned with mine, and we completed the sale in April 2024.

The Cline AI Assistant is Mesmerizing

I tried out the Cline AI assistant yesterday, and then I went into a trance for five hours where I couldn’t do anything but stare transfixed at Cline fixing bugs for me.

As a professional developer, it was both enchanting and terrifying. It’s enchanting that AI has reached this level of proficiency. It’s terrifying for the same reason, as I’m not sure what role I’ll serve in a world where AI can write code better and faster than I can.

Install Deepseek on Linux

Learn to install Deepseek on Linux with our step-by-step guide. Ideal for beginners and advanced users.

Derpify.js is now on npm and GitHub – a tool for these trying times…

As the times we live in demand it, I released Derpify.js. It is an npm package (3 line method) that turns strings into strings that are randomly mixed upper and lower case. console.log(derpify(‘All he wanted to say was I love you all.’)) gives you: ALL hE WANTed to SAY WAS I lOVe YoU AlL. Get […]

80 years ago

80 years ago today the concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau was liberated. Millions of people were killed there. Jews, Roma and Sinti, people with disabilities, homosexuals, political prisoners… All accounted for. Killed by people “just following orders”. An industrial destruction complex void of any emotion. A dehumanisation machine. Surrounded by villages of people who claim not to […]