Adam Jack
@adamrbjack.bsky.social
Mountain loving/living Brit in Colorado. Awed husband/dad, software developer, volunteer firefighter, wildlife lover. Founder of Responserack ( www.responserack.com ) for VFDs.
I started my day with a thought that made me smile:
Pipe script output to AI on the command line to prompt it to look for "anything I should be paying attention to".
Then I realized how much data I'd be piping ... and changed to "ok, a few considered greps will do".
Still, maybe I'll do it once.
Pipe script output to AI on the command line to prompt it to look for "anything I should be paying attention to".
Then I realized how much data I'd be piping ... and changed to "ok, a few considered greps will do".
Still, maybe I'll do it once.
October 30, 2025 at 2:39 PM
I started my day with a thought that made me smile:
Pipe script output to AI on the command line to prompt it to look for "anything I should be paying attention to".
Then I realized how much data I'd be piping ... and changed to "ok, a few considered greps will do".
Still, maybe I'll do it once.
Pipe script output to AI on the command line to prompt it to look for "anything I should be paying attention to".
Then I realized how much data I'd be piping ... and changed to "ok, a few considered greps will do".
Still, maybe I'll do it once.
Yesterday (ok, very early today) I shipped a release I've been working on for many months. ( My industry in switching reporting protocol for the first time in 50 years, and that is a big change! ) Now, it is time to begin to restore a healthy developer / marketer / entrepreneur balance from All:0:0.
May 1, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Yesterday (ok, very early today) I shipped a release I've been working on for many months. ( My industry in switching reporting protocol for the first time in 50 years, and that is a big change! ) Now, it is time to begin to restore a healthy developer / marketer / entrepreneur balance from All:0:0.
No code project I've ever undertaken has felt so hard *after* I've completed it. Now, I just need to get to there sooner. :-)
February 4, 2025 at 6:34 PM
No code project I've ever undertaken has felt so hard *after* I've completed it. Now, I just need to get to there sooner. :-)
One of the other benefits of taking a mountain retreat to coding a feature, is that the design meetings lead to expansive & energized thinking. :-)
February 1, 2025 at 6:36 PM
One of the other benefits of taking a mountain retreat to coding a feature, is that the design meetings lead to expansive & energized thinking. :-)
One of the benefits (and curses, I'm sure) of being a solo founder is you are working on some code, then take a break from it to write a blog article about what its about, then go back and code some more. Is this pure distraction or is it multitasking or ruminating or some combination of them all? 🤷
January 30, 2025 at 7:22 PM
One of the benefits (and curses, I'm sure) of being a solo founder is you are working on some code, then take a break from it to write a blog article about what its about, then go back and code some more. Is this pure distraction or is it multitasking or ruminating or some combination of them all? 🤷
I've told the same "amusing story" at the same point in hundreds of demo over the years. It isn't hilarious, but it connects with my prospects, and connects us. Telling it, one more time, reminds me that this is all new to them. My work is to stay focused on their journey with the product, not mine.
January 30, 2025 at 3:12 PM
I've told the same "amusing story" at the same point in hundreds of demo over the years. It isn't hilarious, but it connects with my prospects, and connects us. Telling it, one more time, reminds me that this is all new to them. My work is to stay focused on their journey with the product, not mine.
I am sure it say something about that that I get enough pleasure getting to "zero characters remaining" that, if I am close, I actually work for it. Typically nobody knows but me, and the browse code/algorithm, but I still smile.
January 16, 2025 at 2:03 PM
I am sure it say something about that that I get enough pleasure getting to "zero characters remaining" that, if I am close, I actually work for it. Typically nobody knows but me, and the browse code/algorithm, but I still smile.
This year I got 13 days into the year before thinking ... what year range does my website say again? Copyright years, Pages "Do X in year XYZ". Uploading "2025" now. (Could I dynamically code it? Sure, but where is the fun in that?)
January 13, 2025 at 8:11 PM
This year I got 13 days into the year before thinking ... what year range does my website say again? Copyright years, Pages "Do X in year XYZ". Uploading "2025" now. (Could I dynamically code it? Sure, but where is the fun in that?)
Start of year is busy for my SAAS. Existing customers need support to up their game for the new year. End of year customers need customer success. Prospects come out of the woodwork, trying to catch up for not having gotten it done end of year. :-) Busy, very busy, even tiring *BUT* darn good times.
January 13, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Start of year is busy for my SAAS. Existing customers need support to up their game for the new year. End of year customers need customer success. Prospects come out of the woodwork, trying to catch up for not having gotten it done end of year. :-) Busy, very busy, even tiring *BUT* darn good times.
Leg day (lower body) is shorter than upper body, but the effects last so much longer. Both the positive feelings, and that 'price of human body maintenance' feeling (aka aches if you've not kept up.)
January 13, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Leg day (lower body) is shorter than upper body, but the effects last so much longer. Both the positive feelings, and that 'price of human body maintenance' feeling (aka aches if you've not kept up.)
Well said Ben. Some of our firefighters have similar observations: coalcreekcanyonfd.org/2017/10/26/r...
January 11, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Well said Ben. Some of our firefighters have similar observations: coalcreekcanyonfd.org/2017/10/26/r...
As a solo founder I need marketing to grow my business, but I tackled marketing like code, and worried about every detail and edge case. I was stalled. The #SaasMarketingGym (from @punchlinecopy.com and @leenyburger.bsky.social) has given me wings, and I now feel free to be myself & make progress.
January 10, 2025 at 5:26 PM
As a solo founder I need marketing to grow my business, but I tackled marketing like code, and worried about every detail and edge case. I was stalled. The #SaasMarketingGym (from @punchlinecopy.com and @leenyburger.bsky.social) has given me wings, and I now feel free to be myself & make progress.
Starting my day in the gym leaves me feeling good, but also with a long list of (potential) TODOs from the ideas that were created while exercising. :-)
December 16, 2024 at 3:07 PM
Starting my day in the gym leaves me feeling good, but also with a long list of (potential) TODOs from the ideas that were created while exercising. :-)
I've been using "Following" and occasionally "Discover", but @briancasel.com 's last podcast episode made me think to add the "Popular With Friends" feed. Seems like "Discover what the people you follow like", which feels one step improved upon (or at least enjoyably different) than the algorithm.
December 8, 2024 at 5:53 PM
I've been using "Following" and occasionally "Discover", but @briancasel.com 's last podcast episode made me think to add the "Popular With Friends" feed. Seems like "Discover what the people you follow like", which feels one step improved upon (or at least enjoyably different) than the algorithm.
@briancasel.com listening to your podcast today, and it occurs to me how much of a 'Beian force multiplier' you achieve with outsourcing. Many solo founders get stuck there. Maybe there is some blog or video content in your experience there?
December 7, 2024 at 6:54 PM
@briancasel.com listening to your podcast today, and it occurs to me how much of a 'Beian force multiplier' you achieve with outsourcing. Many solo founders get stuck there. Maybe there is some blog or video content in your experience there?
I worked out at the gym a lot this week. Lots of aches and pains from the new moves. Still, despite the ups/downs it feels like general progress. Building some consistency, and new pathways.
December 6, 2024 at 9:34 PM
I worked out at the gym a lot this week. Lots of aches and pains from the new moves. Still, despite the ups/downs it feels like general progress. Building some consistency, and new pathways.
@tylerking.app should success analytics for LACRM forms actually be impressions of the LACRM brand to potentially non-LACRM folks, and clicks on footer branding, and maybe some improved DR due to more links to the LACRM site from emails/social/shares? Usage by non-LACRM folk vs existing LACRM folks.
December 5, 2024 at 11:56 PM
@tylerking.app should success analytics for LACRM forms actually be impressions of the LACRM brand to potentially non-LACRM folks, and clicks on footer branding, and maybe some improved DR due to more links to the LACRM site from emails/social/shares? Usage by non-LACRM folk vs existing LACRM folks.
Sometimes the first line says enough: "From troubles of the world, I turn to ducks". (Or pups/elk for me, today.)
www.poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/ducks
www.poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/ducks
Poetry By Heart
www.poetrybyheart.org.uk
December 5, 2024 at 8:09 PM
Sometimes the first line says enough: "From troubles of the world, I turn to ducks". (Or pups/elk for me, today.)
www.poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/ducks
www.poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/ducks
The elk are far away from bother (us) today.
December 5, 2024 at 8:03 PM
The elk are far away from bother (us) today.
I am missing my (out of action) swolemate at the gym. Without him I lack gym energy/focus, so I picked and mixed all the fun exercises to give me energy. Consistency is my goal, so whatever it takes to stay consistent is key to me ...
December 4, 2024 at 7:35 PM
I am missing my (out of action) swolemate at the gym. Without him I lack gym energy/focus, so I picked and mixed all the fun exercises to give me energy. Consistency is my goal, so whatever it takes to stay consistent is key to me ...
What is nice about putting down the code and picking up marketing is it doesn't have to compile, or pass unit tests, and without such guard rails I can convince myself it is running & performing like a champ. Makes stopping at the end of day so much easier. :-)
December 3, 2024 at 11:32 PM
What is nice about putting down the code and picking up marketing is it doesn't have to compile, or pass unit tests, and without such guard rails I can convince myself it is running & performing like a champ. Makes stopping at the end of day so much easier. :-)
Another day, another wander.
December 3, 2024 at 9:01 PM
Another day, another wander.
Day #2 of the gym, and I think I tweaked a body part on day #1, but tweak not pull not injury, so not enough to stop me trying again. Slow and steady...
December 3, 2024 at 6:37 PM
Day #2 of the gym, and I think I tweaked a body part on day #1, but tweak not pull not injury, so not enough to stop me trying again. Slow and steady...
I've been listening to @robwalling.com's podcast for about as many years as he's been delivering it, to the point I think I could often quote him in advance on topics. :-) I really enjoyed episode 742: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
Episode 742 | Normalizing Hard Things, Facing Your Biggest Threat, and Making it Fast (A Rob Solo Adventure)
Podcast Episode · Startups For the Rest of Us · 12/03/2024 · 28m
podcasts.apple.com
December 3, 2024 at 4:31 PM
I've been listening to @robwalling.com's podcast for about as many years as he's been delivering it, to the point I think I could often quote him in advance on topics. :-) I really enjoyed episode 742: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
My product is built to be visual, so I get to re-use some of the photos I've taken over the years (as PIO.) They speak to me, but I also intended to allow customers to upload their photos to make it speak to them. Years in, a customer is making that happen. :-)
December 3, 2024 at 3:10 PM
My product is built to be visual, so I get to re-use some of the photos I've taken over the years (as PIO.) They speak to me, but I also intended to allow customers to upload their photos to make it speak to them. Years in, a customer is making that happen. :-)