I was done with programming five years ago. Probably from all the work I did for people that didn't matter. Hours programming things that never went anywhere. I always promised that, next time I'm going solo and doing my own stuff. But, that next time never came.

So I left. Went to work on a farm. Did some handyman stuff. I always tried to get back into the programming thing, but I had, I guess, Writers Block. I could start, but I couldn't keep it going. It would fizzle out when I got the menubar on the screen.

Lots of promises to people and to myself that I would do some stuff. Never did. If I had the time, I didn't want to do it. When I wanted to do it, I didn't have the time. You know how it goes.

When you become a 1000x programmer as a sole proprietor of a software company you get some motivation back. Sure, I'm not actually programming. I'm reviewing and making tweaks. The bulk of it is Claude Code.

10 years I wanted that billing software. Done in a night. 5 years I wanted to get my customer websites off WordPress. A week. 5 years to do my own website... A night.

It's so bad that I'm working 15 hours a day poking at the AI and changing everything I have. I'm super motivated. Hyper motivated. I can't sleep. I just want to get that next feature done so I can redo the entire project in another framework. LOL

It just feels like everything is coming together for me now. Great job, side job going very well, and all my personal stuff getting finished.

I even have Claude making my 3D models to print.

I was asking Google about HDD compatibility and this is part of the convo:

I downloaded the new Herdr-App. Love it. It's just like the Herdr-TUI that I've already been using but it's a GUI that's a lot easier to use. I also found out that I can run my agents remotely on my server. It works really well.

But, I use OpenRig on my server. And Herdr-App didn't work with it because OpenRig doesn't use herdr-core. What should a guy with a bunch of agents in a OpenRig system do?

I told my lead to fix the problem. And they worked on it. Now I have OpenRig running in my Herdr remotely. A script to reattach when I boot up and everything.

My lead told me to check Github so we can put a PR for it. But when I checked the open issues on GH there was someone already working on it. I was able to contribute to the conversation in the issue. Hopefully helped a little.

So, while I'm waiting for the official release, I've got my own patched system that I can use for now. Weeeee

I've been using Claude and Codex to build stuff lately. It's amazing. So much getting done.

So, yesterday I repurposed an old laptop that I have. My dear Thinkpad that the screen crapped out on. I installed OpenRig on it. Now I have a bot army to augment my work with.

It's pretty awesome. I have multiple workforces working on multiple projects all on their own computer. They have leads, builders, QA, reviewers, auditors, the whole team.

Now I can assign them work and they crank out finish products. It's amazing. I'm getting more done now than I've ever had.

I'm having them submit pull requests and I review all the code. They make a lot of code, so that's not an easy task. But, the code coming out is really good code. I haven't see any slop yet. I'm sure some will come through at some point, but it's all been pretty solid.

The terminal posting tool that I built for this website has an image picker so I can insert images into my posts. It uses the Kitty Graphics Protocol to show images in the file list. I don't have to remember the file names when I'm finding a image.

Not bad eh.

It's been computer days for me for the last three weeks. I've been a mad man. Three web sites, two web apps, and a console app.

I've been using Claude and Codex. It's been amazing. I'm 100x faster now. It's crazy.

Programmers all over the internet say how bad the tools are. How they produce slop code. And I'm just not seeing that. The code is actually pretty good. I'm reviewing it constantly looking for slop. It's just not there.

I'm getting so much more done. I can't go back. I guess I'm a vibe coder now.

Years ago. Like 20 years ago. I wanted to write my own billing system. I was using a bunch of different invoicing systems. Some of them were really good. But, they would go away or the price would climb. Then after a while they would add dumb features and make it harder to use.

So this week I build my own billing/invoicing system. It will send the first invoices tomorrow. It does autopay, CC payments, and it has an interface to log into and look at your bills. Everything I wanted and it's so simple. Nothing confusing for the customer. It just shows you what you owe and you pay it. Done.

Last night I build this blogging site. I took it off line in 2025. I was using WordPress for the longest time, but I hated WP. Finally I got sick of it and switched to Hugo. Well, that was worse. I really didn't like it.

So I took the site down thinking that I would build a Rails app for blogging. I never did.

Last night I thought I would take another shot at it. I build a theme and a simple single page. It was good. Then I built it out using SQLight and PHP. As I was thinking about deployment I said to myself, "self. Can I put this into a Docker deployment?" I thought, this would have to have a web server, PHP, and everything. I wanted something as small as it can be.

So, I had Claude code convert the site into Go. It has a backend API and it uses SQLight. I can deploy it with hardly nothing in the Docker because it's its own server.

Then I vibed up a console TUI app to make my posts to the site. It works great! I can stay in the terminal and make posts. I even embedded NVIM into it for writing the posts. So sweet!

A few days ago I did my company web site. It's all nice now and it's in Go also. Super small deployment. Even has a email form... that I'm getting spam from. I need to tweak that.

Days before that I finally got Sweetwater's site rebuilt. All new and it looks great! I was promising them a site for like five years.

Well, I'm on a roll. Everyone is getting a new site! LOL

I've been having a blast in Reno all summer. I rode a whole lot while I have been here. I've met a whole bunch of really cool new people. It's been a blast.

Recently I got back into Programming. Got tired of manual labor work. Got tired of not having any money ever. So back to work I go.

I guess I'm a vibe coder now. I started using Claude Code and Codex to help get things done. And get things done I've been doing. Things that I had planned to do 20 years ago. I'm absolutely blown away by these new tools. I'm almost not even touching the code anymore.

Anyway, I'm back at it. Making applications. Posting web sites. Building tools. I guess I'll never not be a programmer.

Heading back to Reno!

On the trip we had such a good time on the west coast that we decided to move back to Reno, NV. It’s the perfect location for west coast living. Got a place lined up for the bus and everything.

Now we are working on fixing up the bus for good on the road living. New roof sealant, walls, ceiling, and floors. Getting insulation all in. Then all new cabinets and counters. Building out a new seating area and computer workstation areas.

Finally going to get the garage cleaned up for our bikes to fit in the back. That area has been neglected for a while now.

Hopefully we can be on the road before winter. Probably will spend some time on the road in the warmer states until Reno warms up a bit.

Another adventure!

What a good time.

We took a trip around the country for vaca this year. Left Florida on June 1st and got back on the 9th of July.

We headed out along the gulf coast up into Alabama. Then into up to Houston, TX. From there we went to Roswell, NM and then to Sedona, AZ for a short stay. Road to Reno, NV after that for week stay with friends. Then to Portland, OR for a few days with other friends. Then we headed off across the country to Licoln, NE for another week of chilling. Then back home.

We were wanting to go into BC, Canada and down to Yellowstone, but it was way too cold for all that. Snowing in Yellowstone when we were in Portland. It got really cold on the West Coast.

We had a lot of fun at our stopping points. Saw a whole lot of great stuff. We really missed the West Coast and I really missed the mountains and my friends in Reno. So we are finishing the bus build out and heading West. Moving to Reno to hand with my friend. So long Florida.

Nope, didn’t like Tailwind. Not one bit. I’m not too fond of creating web pages in Rails either.

I’m back on Vue/Vuetify. I love how easy it is to build web applications with it. I’m still using Rails as my API backend for now. I really want to switch to Go for that, but Rails makes it so easy. So… Rails and Vuetify.

Now I have to rewrite all my stuff into Javascript and JSON from the server. Shouldn’t be too hard. My best work was on this stack. I still have the old code to reference.

Can’t wait to get this all going. After this private project is done I’ll be ready for building my E-Mail client. Not sure if I want to do it TUI, GUI, or WebUI. I’ll figure it out later.