Andrew Shell

In August, I paused my Keto diet. I was traveling a lot with my daughter for summer vacation, and you might be surprised to find it's hard to eat Keto at Circus World. I had plateaued and been out of ketosis for over three months (since the new job), so I'm guessing it's related...

Just about a week ago, Charlie Kirk was shot and killed during one of his college debates. Since then, a war has erupted between people who celebrated his death (or said they thought he had it coming) and those who believe that political violence is never acceptable.

For the last few weeks, I've been playing around with Claude Code and have found it to be very useful. In particular, I've been leveraging it to modernize my RSS Cloud Server project, which has been on the back burner for several years.

I decided to share my ThothGPT System Prompt, which I'll keep updated as it changes and evolves.

Two weeks ago, I started a new role at PetPlace, and it's been incredible. The responsibility, the challenge, the potential for growth. Everything I'd hoped for. But there's been an unexpected side effect. I can feel myself getting close to burnout.

At my last job, I could literally go days without accomplishing anything significant.

“Hey Dad, do you want to hear some popular music?”

It’s 5:30 a.m. My house is still. My mind isn’t.

I just quit a job I held for over five years—and I'm walking into something I don’t feel fully ready for.

I thought I was just tired from a busy Easter weekend.