Journal entries from nathanpitman.comhttps://nathanpitman.com/https://nathanpitman.com/avatar.jpghttps://nathanpitman.comhttps://nathanpitman.com/posts/ai-in-september/https://nathanpitman.com/posts/ai-in-september/Month three of my AI log. In September: using Claude Design for PowerPoint slides, a 90s Macromedia Director animation brought back to life in HTML, OpenTTD Mod fixes and isometric sprites, plus Jev, doom headlines and mountains of AI slop.Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://nathanpitman.com/posts/ai-in-august/https://nathanpitman.com/posts/ai-in-august/Month two of my AI log. In August: an outreach tool for stalled onboarding clients, a genuinely tricky AI tutor bug fixed, auditing SEO keywords against our ICPs, a contract-review skill, and a reply to "I'm Done Using AI" that I should probably turn into its own post.Mon, 31 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://nathanpitman.com/posts/ai-in-july/https://nathanpitman.com/posts/ai-in-july/Kicking off a monthly log of what I'm actually doing with AI, at work and at home. All the things I've built, broken, and learned. In July: a conversational training tutor, a lead enrichment API, a web player for animations trapped on 90s floppy disks, and turning a CRO audit into a set of redesigned web pages in hours instead of weeks.Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://nathanpitman.com/posts/going-it-alone-revisited-20-years-later/https://nathanpitman.com/posts/going-it-alone-revisited-20-years-later/Looking back on the "Going It Alone" Q&A-style interview series I ran 20+ years ago, I've tracked down the same five self-employed friends for a 2026 follow-up - 7 new questions and a whole two decades of perspective!Sat, 18 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://nathanpitman.com/posts/introducing-fedi-follow-catch/https://nathanpitman.com/posts/introducing-fedi-follow-catch/I’ve got two separate social graphs right now (one on Bluesky, one on Mastodon) and no real sense of how much they overlap. I follow people on one who I probably also want to follow on the other, but I had no way of seeing the gap. So I asked Claude Code to help me figure out a way to actually see it: compare both follow lists and surface who I was missing on each side.Sat, 20 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://nathanpitman.com/posts/tim-langdell-has-respawned/https://nathanpitman.com/posts/tim-langdell-has-respawned/Tim Langdell — the trademark troll who spent decades threatening anyone using the word 'edge' near video games — has filed yet another federal complaint against Mobigame, despite his previous losses vs Future Publishing, Electronic Arts, and Mobigame themselves.Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://nathanpitman.com/posts/the-librarian/https://nathanpitman.com/posts/the-librarian/Childhood trips to the local library sparked unexpected discoveries. Now Google’s AI-driven search promises frictionless answers, but what do we lose when the librarian stops pointing at shelves and starts handing us pre-digested ones?Thu, 11 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://nathanpitman.com/posts/managing-email-signatures-still-sucks/https://nathanpitman.com/posts/managing-email-signatures-still-sucks/Sixteen years ago I wrote three sentences about email signatures being a mess. Opportunity missed?Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://nathanpitman.com/posts/closing-the-chapter-on-expressionengine/https://nathanpitman.com/posts/closing-the-chapter-on-expressionengine/A reflection on ExpressionEngine and the 52 add-ons I built over a decade of agency work, prompted by Ryan Masuga's LinkedIn post marking the 16th anniversary of devot:ee.Wed, 13 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://nathanpitman.com/posts/energy-economy-in-open-transport-tycoon-deluxe/https://nathanpitman.com/posts/energy-economy-in-open-transport-tycoon-deluxe/A full energy economy mod for OpenTTD that introduces nuclear and renewable industries over time — built for my own amusement.Sat, 09 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://nathanpitman.com/posts/scratching-an-itch-to-build-a-game/https://nathanpitman.com/posts/scratching-an-itch-to-build-a-game/From BBC Micro to browser - how nostalgia for text adventures, a dog-eared Ken Williams memoir, and some late-night Replit sessions led to a mobile-friendly port of Colossal Cave Adventure, built entirely on iOS.Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://nathanpitman.com/posts/rediscovering-making-things/https://nathanpitman.com/posts/rediscovering-making-things/After five years away from writing code, AI tools reignited a passion for building things — and changed what it means to be a solo maker forever.Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://nathanpitman.com/posts/back-from-the-dead-resurrecting-nathanpitman-dot-com-after-a-decade-in-the-dark/https://nathanpitman.com/posts/back-from-the-dead-resurrecting-nathanpitman-dot-com-after-a-decade-in-the-dark/The story of how nathanpitman.com — a personal blog that went dark when its host shut down — was recovered from the Wayback Machine and rebuilt with Astro.Thu, 19 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://nathanpitman.com/posts/contract-furniture-solutions/https://nathanpitman.com/posts/contract-furniture-solutions/Pretty pleased with this one, we just launched a lovely little site at Nine Four for our client Design & Contract Interiors. Mobile first, responsive, clean...Tue, 21 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://nathanpitman.com/posts/the-tools-of-my-trade/https://nathanpitman.com/posts/the-tools-of-my-trade/Sometimes people ask, so to save tweets here’s a quick summary:Thu, 14 Nov 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://nathanpitman.com/posts/just-to-add-a-bit-of-whimsy/https://nathanpitman.com/posts/just-to-add-a-bit-of-whimsy/Drag this bookmarklet link to your bookmarks bar in Google Chrome, browse to Yahoo! (or any other website) and click the bookmarklet for a bit of whimsy.Thu, 05 Sep 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://nathanpitman.com/posts/safari-on-ios-7-beta-breaks-the-internet/https://nathanpitman.com/posts/safari-on-ios-7-beta-breaks-the-internet/This little gem is going to become real annoying real quick. In Safari on iOS 7 clicking anywhere in the bottom 40px of the screen does not register as a...Tue, 27 Aug 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://nathanpitman.com/posts/goodbye-dear-friend/https://nathanpitman.com/posts/goodbye-dear-friend/Adobe Fireworks is deadTue, 07 May 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://nathanpitman.com/posts/my-thoughts-on-apple-tv-apps/https://nathanpitman.com/posts/my-thoughts-on-apple-tv-apps/> Something occurred to me last night. The Apple TV is the perfect candidate for web based apps with home screen shortcuts… > > — Nathan Pitman...Sun, 05 May 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://nathanpitman.com/posts/building-a-financial-buffer-and-getting-paid-on-time/https://nathanpitman.com/posts/building-a-financial-buffer-and-getting-paid-on-time/So often I think I should write more here on the ups and downs of running your own business but somehow the time required always evades me. Thankfully my...Fri, 26 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT