I started learning to program in earnest near the beginning of 2024. I took the excellent CS50 course from Harvard which is online/free every year. A pretty amazing resource. I'm still not a proficient programmer. I couldn't have built Textbooks without Claude's help and it was still a ton of work. Textbooks is a budget system that you...

I got fired from Adobe in April of 2024. Wow, that feels like years ago but it hasn't been that long. I worked at Adobe for 12 years and honestly, that was too long. I was originally hired at Typekit. An SF startup solving the problem of fonts on the web. It was exciting and fun to be the 11th or 12th employee but even then, I saw this...