When my oldest son, Adam, turned 28, I wanted something personal playing on the television during his backyard birthday party. I had a folder containing about 130 photographs from different parts of his life, but I did not have a finished slideshow—or much interest in manually arranging every image in video-editing software. I asked ChatGPT...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
