My son Andrew downloaded a fitness tracking app twelve days ago. He's already in the top 6% of all users on the platform. Twelve days. Not twelve months. Not even twelve weeks. At first that sounded like a compliment to his consistency — and it is. But the more I dug into it, the more...
I Gave Claude a Long-Term Memory — Here’s How
Every developer who uses an AI coding assistant has hit this wall. You spend an hour getting Claude up to speed on your project. The stack, the quirks, the half-finished refactor in the auth module, the reason you chose SQLite over MySQL. By the end of the session, the AI is practically a team member....
Fat 2 Fit Is Now Available as a PDF Download
A few years back, my co-author, Jeff Ainslie, and I put everything we’d learned about real, sustainable weight loss into a book called Fat 2 Fit: Getting There and Staying There. Not a crash diet. Not a supplement pitch. Just the honest, practical framework that actually worked for us — and for a lot of...
How We Built an Automated Blog That Publishes Itself Every Day
And how we can build one for you. There’s a particular kind of magic in waking up to find your website has already done its job — researched a topic, written an article, and published it — while you were asleep. That’s not a fantasy. It’s exactly how DailySideHustle.me works, and it’s built from three...
Heapy House Cocktail for Christmas
The Heapy House salad has been at every Christmas celebration since I can remember. It’s a typical Jell-O salad that any grandmother might make and bring to Christmas dinner. My Grandmother was the main “chef” and as far as I know the creator of the Heapy House Salad. I’ve made it multiple time since her...
Hof’s Hut Autumn Daydream Cocktail
So, I had one of the best cocktails that I’ve ever had at the most unlikely of places, Hof’s Hut. Yes, Hof’s Hut. The local Hof’s Hut had advertised a cocktail called the Autumn Daydream in it’s fall menu. It is a mixture of Maker’s Mark, lemon juice, apple juice and cinnamon syrup. I had...
Looking Back at the Kringle Cast
Apparently I’m getting all friggin’ nostalgic. I have all, or at least most, of the old podcasts that I’ve been a part of. Recently I was perusing through them and found this gem. The Kringle Cast was one of my favorite podcast ideas. The concept was to have a phone line that children could call...
What Girl Scout Cookie Reigns Supreme?
Back in 2011, the podcast Homemade is Best was in full production. My co-host Helana and I were hitting our stride and produced some great content. One of my favorite recipes that I replicated during this time was the homemade Thin Mint recipe. Still, nearly 10 years later, I still have vivid memories of how...
Extending Google WiFi
Ever since moving to a larger home two years ago, I’ve been dealing with WiFi dead zones. The home is 2800 sf and it is a two-story home. The footprint is not very large though. You would have thought that a centrally located router/access point (router) would do the job. Not so. From day one...