Posts

All the articles I've posted.

• The App-a-Week Challenge Became Something Slower

  Building
  14 Jun, 2026

  I set out to ship one church app per week during Lent. I shipped one, and Worship Cast became the start of a slower, more serious product direction.

• The Brain Is Rented, the Mind Is Owned: My Personal AI Agent on a 2013 Laptop

  Thinking
  13 Jun, 2026

  I moved my self-hosted personal AI agent from OpenClaw to Hermes and run the whole thing on a thirteen-year-old laptop. Why I switched, why ownership beat features, and how I keep it portable, swappable, and backed up.

• Worship Cast: Week One of Building for the Church

  Building
  22 Feb, 2026

  Week one of my Lenten building challenge: an overnight hackathon, five different tools, a phone, a laptop, and a problem I've been quietly annoyed about for years finally solved.

• Finding Community in the Digital Age

  Living
  18 Feb, 2026

  Reflections on what it means to belong in a world that is increasingly mediated by screens and algorithms.