Blog

May 26, 2026

How a flaky iOS side project turned into the future of Layout.

May 24, 2026

I dropped out of Chapman University. Here's the honest version of why.

May 6, 2026

The bottleneck moved. It's not whether you can build it anymore. It's whether the market is there and whether you care enough to stick with it.

May 6, 2026

Link by Layout

An internal tool I built for Layout that I decided should just be public. Free QR codes and short links, no watermarks.

May 5, 2026

How Layout started

I was at a coffee shop in Roseville. The line was out the door. I asked the owner why he didn't have a mobile app.

May 4, 2026

Roomdrop

A cockroach, a DoorDash order, and a Fizz poll that settled the question.

May 2, 2026

Vex Hosting

I co-founded a Minecraft server hosting platform freshman year of high school. Hundreds of millions of Facebook views. Most people don't know this chapter exists.