I've had an interest in the back of my brain for some time when it comes to D&D. I pulled the trigger on a started set and am going to play for first campaign with my wife and daughter. I'm excited.

A trial user for Train Factor experienced an error and cancelled their trial. This morning I fixed the error and emailed them to say thanks for trying my app and that I fixed the error they experienced. As a user do you want to get an email like this or is this too "invasive"?

Last week marked 12 years since I quit my job to go into freelancing full time. I always like to spend a little time each year thinking about that decision and where I am at now. This poster I've had for years now has always been a good mantra to have around. Really looking forward to 2026.

Last day to keep my streak in Train Factor alive. Really like this dry fire setup.

I'm finally committing and switching from Chrome to Safari as my default browser. The older I get the more I realize the benefits of using built in tools that are the same across all my devices. The ecosystem holds so many benefits. It's also not like Safari isn't a good browser.

Updated the cockpit. - Replaced MagSafe stand with a mount on the back of my monitor - Add F1 car I built last weekend I'm super picky about my desk setup and this honestly feels a little cluttered for me, but going to stick with it for a week and see how I feel.

I have some direction on where I want to take the app I am working on visually. Design is always the part I get hung up on. Idea in my head, but getting it out is really tough for me.

Got through all functionality implementation and testing in the remedies journal app I am working on. That just leaves UI. Going for simple, but with some personality. Any SwiftUI apps that you really like the vibe of? I'm looking for inspiration.

Decided to circle back and work to bring the remedies tracker app I have mostly built into the mix. Would love to get it launched by the end of this month. Functionality wise its mostly complete. UI and testing are what is left.

We don't actively market our agencies, but I built a tool this week for cold email outreach. Marketron lets us create campaigns, track stats, and have all conversations in one place. This will be a great way to passively get our agencies in front of potential clients.

A little fun this morning. Might be desk worthy.

Small book haul yesterday. I haven't read Stephen King before, but looking forward to it.

Getting a race in before my workout and the actual sprint race today

Watch It! Got approved and is available to update in the App Store.

And here we go…

Big update for Watch It! was just submitted to Apple for review. List sharing is here and the last big feature from the original idea of the app. I know for me this turns the app from a somewhat helpful app to exactly what me and my wife needed. 🤞 for a speed approval!

Feeling more confident in Ai to work within multiple codebases and execute tasks for me. Spending some time making some updates to Watch It!. Getting error scenarios handled and plan on adding a big new feature for sharing lists.

We are getting serious about buying a new house so I created a spreadsheet to help us see different scenarios for a new home and how it impacts our budget. It works, but decided to vibe code an app. Going to spend about an hour on this and see what I get - feeling confident.

A huge benefit that AI coding tools has given me specifically is the ability to say yes to almost anything when it comes to client requests. Being able to have confidence in the current code base has brought in billable hours as well as delivering more for our clients.

I didn't finish the last 2 books that I started. When this happens I tend to go back to something familiar. Read through Sunrise on the Reaping because I am a big Hunger Games fan and liked it. Haven't read the original trilogy of books so I am working my way through those.

Our new sites look so good on the iPad 😍

Merged 🔀

Creating the videos to show off our work on our new app development agency site. We did this for our web development agency site and I think the videos work better than just screenshots.

All the way through Drive to Survive. A fantastic way to get the most recent storylines for a new sport you are getting into. I wish Supercross had something like this to help bring in new fans.

We launched a new website for our web development agency (www.af.works) a couple weeks ago and now we're working on one for our app focused agency. I'm super stoked on it 😂

I kicked off September by saying: no side projects this month. Just focus on client work. Less on my plate, right?

I decided to switch up my home screen setup with iOS 26. Went with a lighter background and darker icons. Honestly surprised how much I like it. I always thought the dark icons looked dumb, but I was wrong. Always a plus when I get Godzilla involved 🦖

I talked about how launch lists can have long waitlists in a previous video. Well Indie Buckets got listed today on Tiny Startups. Even though it took 4 months to get listed it's nice to have another opportunity to launch the product 😃 www.tinystartups.com

Got some good training in today. Fairly consistent around that 2s mark from holster draw to shot on target. Hit my goal for the month and extending my streak in Train Factor now that I am back to training consistently.

The features I was most excited about that would impact me the most were call screening in iOS 26 and flick to dismiss on watchOS 26. ✅ Call screening has been flawless since running the beta ❌ Flick to dismiss is not available on 1st gen Apple Watch Ultras 🤬

This is hard and fun as hell.

My favorite part of the Apple Watch announcement is that they are actually going to have a black Nike sport loop. Been waiting years for this. No joke.

A client app I built a couple years ago they put on the back burner has finally gotten a green light to publish. Had a couple small rejections from Apple, but the most recent one is citing guidelines that are the actual core of why the app exists...

Editing video for the portfolio on our new site and watching F1 practice. A fun day for us today since we are launching our new agency site.

Stoked for the racing this weekend. 1st round of the playoffs for supermotocross and another F1 race. 🚥⏱️🏁

September is going to be about clearing out and getting on top of things. Only focusing on tasks that have been lingering for awhile. Pushing to get everything cleared about before putting focus on anything else.

I enjoy holidays because most everyone is not working so it lets me focus on exactly what I need/want to be working on. No interruptions . Spent time today making progress on the new website for our agency. It's mostly wrapped up and the plan is to launch at the end of the week.

I'm pretty lucky that my favorite sport, supercross/motocross, lasts for 9 months of the year. With it coming to an end next month I'm looking for something else and it looks like it's F1. Watched the movie yesterday and started Drive to Survive. More racing with a long season.

Call screening in iOS 26 is fantastic. All daily spam calls have been silenced with none coming through. It's also helped with calls that aren't technically spam, but sales calls I don't need to spend time on.

I'm finding myself adding this to the end of each prompt when working with agents. ""Please take your time and be thorough. If you need any more contact or have questions let me know." I mainly use GPT-5 in VS Code and it seems to make a positive difference in the output.

Got some training in today and made a step towards hitting my goal in Train Factor. Its always satisfying seeing the progress bar increase 😎

I'm very interested in setting up some AI automations to help me with the stuff I always do like processing my emails and project management tasks. What sort of setups do you have that have really lightened your load in a way you have confidence in?

I've been slacking on my training this year so I updated my goal in Train Factor and set some recurring tasks to help me get back on track. Starting a new streak and set up to keep it alive this time.

I spent a lot of last week working with GPT-5 and I was really impressed. I gave it two separate parts of a project that has a rails backend and Next.js front end and it had it add some complex new features. It handled it really well and didn't require a lot of back and forth.

I installed the public beta for iOS 26 on my phone. After having this on my iPad for a few weeks and now my phone I can confidently say i'm not a fan of the new design language. It's not so much the glass stuff, but the app icons are where I notice it the most and it bugs me.

This is why I chose to focus on mobile apps, and exclusively for Apple devices — built in distribution. Basic ASO can help me get in front of customers and my first app — Train factor — has been validated in my eyes. In the past 30 days I have had 3 users convert from trial.

“Validate your idea before building it!” But how? Literally, how? 🫥 With no audience I can’t validate anything with more than one or two responses on social media. Good idea, but it means nothing without explaining how to execute on it. Audience is a requirement.

I always use week view in my calendar and that doesn’t exist on the phone. It’s always bugged me. I literally just found you can change the display to get more detail when viewing at the month level. This is a game changer for me 😂

I’m always in a cycle of work hard, try to optimize schedule to feel like I have more control over my time, fail at that, go back to working hard. Currently in the optimize schedule part of the cycle. My biggest challenge is allowing myself to not be available all the time.

I am hearing the fans more and more on my M1 Max MacBook Pro. Was kind of hoping that macOS Tahoe would bring optimization along with the redesign.