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About me

I like to spend my time with family and friends, and enjoy good times, bad jokes, hot coffee, and cold beer. When I'm not working or hanging out with my lovely girlfriend, I can be found playing pool or disc golf.

At work I run operations for our Amazon and Shopify based business. Some days that's marketing strategy, others it's helping develop new products or keeping the warehouse and logistics moving. Then there's the times I'll have to put out a fire because some online service doesn't want to work (I don't blame them, I really don't either). 😜

In the free-ish time that I can find, I'm usually going deeper on AI: building Claude Skills, plugins, and agents. I've kept my notes in Obsidian for over a year now, and lately I wired Claude Code into the vault and started building my own skills, some to work with my notes and some for everything else. I'm also building this very site with Astro.

I love chatting about e-commerce, marketing, Shopify, and anything tech related really. So hit me up if you'd like! đŸ€™

What I'm doing now

The current snapshot, in the now page spirit. Last updated .

Working on

Running operations at Plantonix, keeping an Amazon and Shopify based business humming. Same as always, never the same twice.

And this site. I rebuilt the whole thing from scratch with an AI pair programmer, and I'm still riding that momentum: the rebuild series is being written and published as I go, and new features keep landing (smooth page transitions being the latest).

Playing with

Claude Code for basically everything on this site, and Obsidian for notes (over a year in now, and I recently wired Claude Code into the vault). iOS Shortcuts are on the back burner these days, but they're what first got me into programming.

Life lately

Time with family, friends, and my girlfriend, who I just moved into a new place with. We started a garden this year, which is a funny thing to do for a living and then come home to. When I get a free evening it usually goes to pool or disc golf, hot coffee or cold beer nearby depending on the hour.

What I use

The apps, tools, and gear I reach for every day. I didn't brainstorm this list; it's collected from things I've already written about here, so most items link to the post where I said more.

Hardware

The honest answer right now: a Mac on the desk and an iPhone in my pocket. Exact models and desk gear coming soon.

Mac apps

The tiny utilities are always the keepers.

  • Ice

    A free, open source menu bar manager that keeps my menu bar from turning into chaos. I wrote about it.

  • Scroll Reverser

    Lets the mouse wheel and the trackpad scroll in different directions. This should 100% be a native feature. I wrote about it.

  • UI Actions

    Drives any Mac app from Shortcuts by clicking menus and pressing buttons for you. I wrote about it.

  • Setapp

    One subscription, a pile of good Mac apps. My picks: Bartender 5, CleanShot X, PixelSnap 2, Sip, and iStat Menus. Heads up, that link is an affiliate link. I wrote about it.

iPhone + Shortcuts

  • Apple Shortcuts

    Still handy for quick iPhone and Mac automation, though I build with it less than I used to.

  • RoutineHub

    Where I publish my Shortcuts, including SCSettings. That link goes straight to my profile. I wrote about it.

  • Darksun

    A Dark Sky inspired weather app, and the forecast app I actually open. I wrote about it.

Dev + AI tools

  • Claude Code

    Anthropic's coding agent. It rebuilt this entire site with me, blog posts about that are on the way.

  • GitHub

    Where the code lives, this site included.

  • Obsidian

    Plain Markdown notes, over a year deep now, and lately the vault I am building Claude Code skills to work with.

This site's stack

  • Astro

    The static site framework this whole site is built on. I wrote about it.

  • Tailwind CSS

    Utility classes all the way down, v4 with the CSS first config.

  • MDX

    Markdown for posts, with components where a post needs something extra.

  • Netlify

    Builds and hosts the site. Branch deploys made the rebuild painless.

  • @jdevalk/astro-seo-graph

    The Yoast founder's SEO toolkit: JSON-LD, llms.txt, and validators that fail my build when I mess up.

Curious how the stack section fits together? The full tour is at how this site works.