I'm a web developer living in Newberg, Oregon. I'm passionate about technology, options trading, snowboarding, skateboarding, and tennis.
I founded Cloudmanic Labs, where we build software products like Options Cafe, Skyclerk, and Oregon Past Due Rent. I also invest in various ventures through Matthews Etc.
For 15 years I had a CPA I trusted. She worked from home, we did almost everything by email, and tax season felt manageable. Since she retired I've been trying to find that same relationship — digital-first, responsive, and organized — and I haven't. Here's what I'm looking for.
MCP servers flood your AI agent's context window with massive JSON payloads. A CLI gives it exactly what it needs. Here's why I built a full Tradier brokerage CLI in Go — and why CLIs are the better interface for AI-powered trading workflows.
I've been living in the terminal with Claude Code, Neovim, and tmux. But sharing screenshots with an AI that lives in a terminal session? That was broken. So I vibe coded a macOS screenshot tool that uploads to S3 and gives me a direct URL. Problem solved.
I started my career in the late 90s doing everything in the terminal. Over 30 years I migrated to GUIs, web apps, and desktop tools. Now, thanks to Claude Code, Neovim, and tmux, I'm back where I started — and it's never felt better.
MCP servers flood your AI agent's context window. A CLI doesn't. I built Massive CLI — a command-line tool for the Massive financial data API — because a single binary that outputs clean tables or JSON is a better fit for both humans and AI agents.
The most underrated career strategy isn't optimizing for ROI — it's just doing stuff. Putting things into the world consistently, without overthinking the return, has generated hundreds of thousands of dollars in opportunities over 20 years.
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