AI & Modern Tools.
Most people over 40 are quietly worried they're already behind on AI. You're not. But the window is open right now — and most of the content out there won't help you through it. 13 years as a senior developer. A second brain that follows me everywhere. A production website built in two days. What I actually use, what I actually ignore, and why someone with real technical depth sees these tools completely differently than the people just demoing them. No code required. Zero patience for nonsense.
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Hackers Don't Hack AI-Built Apps. They Just Log In.
Nobody hacked anything. They signed up like a normal customer, changed one number in the URL, and read someone else's data. That hole has a boring name, it is the number one hole on the web again this year, and AI-built apps ship with it constantly. Here is how to check yours in five minutes.
I Made an AI Break Into My Own Website. Here Is What It Found.
I built the site, put in the guards, and still left holes I could not see. So I pointed an AI at it and told it to attack. Here is what it found, the one-line fix, and the habit that matters more than any patch.
Own Your Keys: Vibe Code Without Handing Your Data to a Stranger
A flaw in n8n left tens of thousands of servers wide open, API keys and tokens included. Here is how I built a client's posting tool the secure way, kept the keys on the machine, and skipped the connectors, in an afternoon.
Built an App With AI? You're One Setting From a Data Leak.
A guy built an app with AI, posted that he didn't write a single line of code, and then 4.75 million records walked out the door. The cause was one setting he didn't know he needed. Here's the short list that keeps you off that list, from someone who's been shipping software for 13 years.
You Gave Claude a Memory. Here's the Whole Workspace.
A Master Statement teaches Claude who you are. That's step one, and it doesn't fix the mess: notes in one app, projects in another, half your context stuck in old chats and clouds you don't own. This is the next rung. Your AI interviews you once and builds an organized workspace that pulls it all into plain files you actually own.
I Built an AI Setup That Outlives Every Model
The models leapfrog each other every few weeks. Here's how I keep my AI's memory in plain files I own, so switching tools costs me nothing.
The First Thing You Should Do With Claude: Give It a Memory
Claude starts every chat from zero, so it guesses about you — and guessing is why the answers come back generic. The fix isn't a better prompt. It's a Master Statement: one conversation that makes Claude actually know you, in every chat after.
How I Edit My YouTube Videos with Claude and Remotion
From raw footage to a polished 4K video — audio normalized, transitions in, captions timed to the transcript, and a thumbnail — mostly through conversation with AI.
The Frontier
One short letter every Sunday. The week's best move across the five pillars. No filler, no ads.
Other pillars.
- 01→Self-SufficiencySolar, water, food, the skills that pay rent in any future.
- 02→Financial IndependenceCredit, Roth, real assets, the math of escape.
- 03→Health & EnergyKeto, metabolic reset, the energy you wrote off as gone.
- 05→Life ReinventionThe second act is real. The third one too. Here's the proof.