I just got back from a trip to Disney, so between the Haunted Mansion being on my mind and Halloween being right around the corner, this impulse buy was unavoidable. I saw people posting this Hologram Crystal Ball on social media with uploaded videos of Madame Leota from HM. It turns out, you can upload […]
Adding a Hologram Crystal Ball to My Halloween Setup (and Filling It With My Own Ghosts) Read More »
Spent most of this week in the lab trying to calibrate the large bed on the eufyMake E1. Here’s the whole stupid saga in case you’re mid-saga right now. The symptom made no sense: Nothing in the docs. Nothing in the Facebook groups — I searched, I scrolled, I posted. Got the usual “did you
My eufyMake E1 Kept Failing Calibration. It Was My Garage Lights. Read More »
Two months ago I wrote a post about turning my middle grade novel into a podcast. In it I said the whole thing hinged on cloning my own voice — Mike meets an alternate version of himself every book, so I’d need two Mikes, and an AI clone of me was the obvious answer. I’m
I Was Going to Voice My Kids Podcast Myself. Then I Didn’t. Read More »
The Goal I needed a way to test a short-form video idea for my demotivational speaker alter-ego, Desmond Vance, without sitting in front of a camera every time I had a thought. The plan was simple: I wanted a zero-friction pipeline. I wanted to go from an idea in my head to a published TikTok
How I Cloned Desmond Vance in Gemini and Shipped 10-Second TikToks with Canva Read More »
At my day job, we sometimes host competitive events, and tracking scores on whiteboards or messy spreadsheets was getting old. The goal was to build a dedicated, public-facing leaderboard site to track ongoing bragging rights. The requirements were simple but specific: The Toolkit You don’t need to know how to code to build something like
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Two free business ideas. Every Tuesday. Steal them. Or don’t. Published: June 16, 2026 · Read time: 5 min · Series: Two Free Tuesday A small note before we start Normally the format is one real business idea and one absurd one. This week, both are technically real. The first one would clearly print money.
Two Free Tuesday #002: RecipeReplace and Fish Enbigener Read More »
It won’t be. That’s not how it works. The trap: Receipt: What “not good enough” actually means: The move this week:
Monday Momentum: “The idea isn’t good enough yet” Read More »
What is Two Free Tuesday? Every Tuesday I drop two business ideas I’d hand to someone and say “go build this.” These are ideas I’m specifically not building — because I already have too many projects running, or because I’d lose interest by Wednesday, or because the idea is dumb but might work anyway. Two
Two Free Tuesday #001: Invoice Nudge and Out of Office as a Service Read More »
This is the #1 reason people sit on ideas. It used to be a real wall. It isn’t anymore. The truth: What’s actually behind “I don’t know how to code”: The move this week: You don’t need to learn to code. You need to learn to describe.
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I run a brand called Build and Bail. The whole point is that I start things cheap, test them, and walk away when they don’t work. Walking away is free. That’s the entire trick. So buying a $3,200 UV printer is, on paper, the dumbest thing I could do. You can’t git push your way
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