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Husband. Father. Latter-day Saint. I build software and ship in public — apps, agents, the messy middle.
Fountain Green, Utah 🇺🇸
Joined November 2007
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Husband first. Father second.
I’m a Latter-day Saint in Fountain Green, Utah. I build software — apps, cheap self-hosted agents, the unglamorous parts of shipping — and I write down what I learn so I don’t have to solve it twice.
If you want budgeting tips, that’s @envelopebudget.
If you want the build log, the tools, the mistakes, family life, and Braves in season, that’s this account.
dustindavis.me
Wandering around the desert at night I came across this giant bug that looked like a cross between a bee and a beetle.
Grok informs me it is neither. It is actually a Jerusalem cricket.
Thanks to T-Mobile and Starlink I can still text my wife and browse X when I’m in the middle of nowhere with no service!
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My god this is such a good speech that every SWE needs to hear. You know what? Every person should hear it
Keep the happy memories, eyes on the reality, be excited about the future. That’s the best that anyone can do
Opus 5.5 timing was great. I had Astra start a complete rewrite of my EnvelopeBudget frontend from Django Templates + AlpineJS + HTMX to Svelte.
Astra did a good first pass at things. But then I used Opus to get everything updated, tested, and improved.
4 DAYS - To rewrite a big frontend. I can't believe it. I was going to sit on it, but it was so much better, why not deploy it on a Friday before going camping?
I have a stack of these waivers in my truck from all camps from this year. I generally pre-fill the pdf and send it out to make it easier. I was just thinking last week that I should make a tool to automate this.
@mhp_guy already did! Just send it out for our camp tonight. Awesome work. Thanks!
IYKYK. This form is the enemy of all LDS youth leaders.
Want to plan a fun activity? Ask 40 parents to print and fill these out and return to you in person. Not happening
For the love of the game, I made a 100% free solution that works beautifully: onlywaivers.com
Ever miss a meeting simply because you missed the alarm - or didn't get it?
It happened to often for me. I needed something to pull me out of the ZONE, out of the FLOW!
I've used other tools, but nothing did exactly what I wanted, so I build my own chrome extension. Now meetings are impossible to forget about!
If you have this problem, check out my free chrome extension!
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I'm taking a bunch of 12 and 13 year olds boys to collect rocks and camp in the desert tonight.
It should be fun. I hope they don't take it for ... granite.
This morning I clicked on en extension in @brave and it disappeared. I clicked another one and it disappeared. Deleted. Gone. I quickly restarted my browser. Fixed, but extensions are still missing. What a weird bug!
I have a link on all my blog posts to discuss them on 𝕏 - It doesn't work if I don't first post them on 𝕏
I Built My Own Evernote Replacement. Seven Months Later, I Love It.
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I posted this for my daughter: Get Your Feet Wet with AI for Free: Build and Publish a Website Without Spending a Dime dustindavis.me/blog/get-your…
Is anyone worried Opus 5.5 is so good and the hype is so real that we are going to crash Anthropic's servers?
If your AI budget were $20/mo, where would you get the most bang for your buck and not hit usage limits?
I'm thinking:
1. Devin using SWE-2 (at least until end of October)
2. Hermes with Nous Portal using DeepSeek Flash
3. OpenAI with Luna
Supplement any of these with OpenCode & Muse Spark 1.3
