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February 11, 2026

Reading books is an unfair advantage

What I love about books is that, even though the barrier to entry is getting lower, there is still a barrier to entry. It’s not everyone…

February 11, 2026

What is the Copywriting Rule of One?

This is a concept I got from the book Great Leads and has really helped my flow in writing marketing emails for ColorBliss. It's a simple…

February 4, 2026

What is a jottle?

According to the Dictionaries of the Scots Language: To busy oneself with trifles, to accomplish little although appearing to be industrious…

January 28, 2026

One thousand miles on the Radio Flyer

January 15, 2026

How many backlinks does it take to rank a coloring pages site in Google?

When the .ing TLD was first released, I bought a fun domain: ColorAnyth.ing. At first I redirected it all to ColorBliss, but sometime last…

January 12, 2026

Rest in peace, Bobby Weir

I'm heartbroken over the loss of Bobby Weir over the weekend. His music has been a part of my life ever since I was 16 or 17. I'm not sure…

January 9, 2026

What to aim for after enough

I'm realizing that I'm struggling a bit know what to do and focus on work-wise going into this new year. About…

January 6, 2026

Invest in experiments and systems.

When I think about what to spend time on for my business, I try to think in terms of making an investment…

January 6, 2026

Total Prayer vs Total Work

Reading through Awakening to — And Escaping From — Total Work Through Non-Doing and starting on Chop Wood, Carry…

January 2, 2026

New Year, New Layout

Trying out a new layout to kick off the new year. Key updates are a new "Library" section to motivate to track my 202…

January 2, 2026

2026 Reading List

I didn't hit my reading goal in 2025 (Read 24 books in 2025), but the goal was honestly just for me to keep track of, I…

November 3, 2025

How to add the Ahrefs MCP Server to Cursor

I've been testing out using the Ahrefs MCP server inside of the Claude desktop app, but honestly…

October 7, 2025

Using Netlify's AI Agent Runner

for ColorBliss The Netlify team reached out to me a few weeks ago to be a beta tester for their new AI Agent…

September 19, 2025

You have to look for the good news

Something I've learned over the past couple years working on ColorBliss, and something I experienced also…

September 18, 2025

ColorBliss is two years old!

The first commit to the ColorBliss repo was September 13, 2023: At that point, I really didn't think I'd still…

August 29, 2025

A perfect example of backlink spam

I opened my email to a fun google news alert today (I have google alerts set up to send me mentions of…

August 29, 2025

Yesterday I made a candle with my daughters

and today i am burning it in the office. the sweet sweet smell of apple cinammon :)

August 28, 2025

Is there anybody out there?

The more time I spend learning about SEO, the more I'm convinced that the dead internet theory is real…

August 28, 2025

My Philosophy on Spoilers

Here it is: If a work of literature, film, etc is only good insofar as you don't know how it's going to end, it is…

August 27, 2025

Introducing gatsby-plugin-pretty-link-card

A few days ago, I published an article on dev.to about my process debugging and resolving a…