I enjoy finding ways to exercise my rights as a consumer and push back against corporate abuse, so this was right up my alley.

The book was eye-opening and made me infuriated with how corrupt the medical system is in the US and how much it extracts wealth by fleecing the middle class.

I finally found a solution that makes VS Code work consistently with Zig, so I’m sharing my setup in the hope that it saves someone else a headache.

Before I landed on a working solution, I kept running into issues with Zig version mismatches or VS Code completely failing to recognize Zig semantics and failing over to naive autocomplete.

Highlights

• I’m having doubts about sitting out the AI revolution.
• I should prove to myself that customers are willing to buy my book before investing more time into it.
• I’m probably the last person on the planet to discover that RSS is a great way to read blogs.

Goal grades

At the start of each month, I declare what I’d like to accomplish. Here’s how I did against those goals:

Oracle is not a very popular cloud hosting service, but they have an unusually attractive free tier offering. You can run the following two VMs for free 24/7:

• 4 CPU / 24 GB RAM Ampere A1 ARM VM
• 1 CPU / 1 GB RAM AMD CPU

The AMD one is not that exciting, but a 4-CPU / 24 GB system is more powerful than you’ll find in the free tier of any other cloud vendor.

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.