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Big picture
I’m still living in Cape Town. My kids are 5 (Victor) and nearly 7 (Lockwood).
At work, I’m splitting my time between my Django SaaS boilerplate, SaaS Pegasus, and some contracting gigs. It’s a nice balance of things, though a bit more to juggle than I’m used to.
Me and the boys at a market. September, 2025.
Smaller picture
Here’s a more zoomed-in picture of my life in the last couple months.
Working (or playing?) with agents
At work I’ve been spending most of my time messing around with agents. This involves both using agents to code, which is getting ever more effective (and also ever more complicated!). But it also involves building agents—both inside SaaS Pegasus, and in some other work I’m helping other organizations with. I’ve been making heavy use of Pydantic AI and really loving it. You can learn more in this video I made about using Pydantic AI with Django.
Mulling over the future of Pegasus
With AI being a larger and larger part of how people write code, I’ve been thinking more and more about the future of SaaS Pegasus and the business model of selling a proprietary codebase. I still have more questions than answers on the topic, though it’s something I know I need to be addressing in order to keep myself and Pegasus relevant.
Enjoying dad life
With our youngest turning five, it feels like family life has turned yet another corner. I had the boys by myself for the last two weeks and—while it was certainly tiring—it had none of the soul-crushing exhaustion that I’m used to from past stints of solo parenting. Also, the boys are turning into little humans in front of my eyes. Lockwood—turning seven next week—has really started impressing me with his ideas, questions, and perspective on the world, regularly saying things I haven’t thought of before, or asking questions I don’t know the answers to. It’s a super fun age!
Previously
June, 2025
Getting ready for travel
We are going to North America for all of July. Will be touring around New England and Toronto visiting with friends and family. The family is excited!
We bought a house
In other personal news, we bought a house! It’s not far from our current place in Vredehoek, Cape Town. This is our first home purchase and we have previously only rented furnished places, so we have a lot to figure out (and buy) in the next few months.
Move-in is slotted for September 1.
Adding a store to SaaS Pegasus
My biggest project in the past few months has been adding a codebase store to Pegasus. And it’s live! You can only access it via a secret link, but I’ve announced it on the Pegasus Slack and even made a handful of sales already.
The official launch will be sometime in June because I am not willing to wait till after our travel.
Working on a talk
I’m going to be speaking at a Django Boston meetup while I’m in town—so I’m working on my talk.
The working title is “How to build one-person businesses with Django”.
I will probably not update this for July while we’re traveling.
Updates from May, 2025
Learning Astro, and using it to launch a new website
I recently built a new website with Astro. The website is a directory of SaaS boilerplates. I’m pretty happy with how it came out!
Astro is the latest static site builder I’ve tried (previously: Jekyll, Hugo, Next.js). And—after spending a week with it—I really loved it. I’m now tempted to port some of my other sites—especially this one—to Astro.
Figuring out my YouTube channel
I have a programming YouTube channel, which serves as a form of marketing and documentation for Pegasus. Right now the content is mostly unfiltered live streams of me building something with Django and Pegasus.
I have the sense that I could make my content a lot better, but that it would also take a lot more effort per video—and I’ve been debating whether this is a good idea.
My short term idea is to produce one higher-quality video and see how different the performance is, and then use that to determine next steps.
Pondering the future of this website (and writing, for me)
In a similar vein, I’m not sure what I’m doing with this website anymore.
Last year I thought I should try to produce more ambitious writing, but that mostly failed. This year my writing has mostly taken a back-burner to coding, working on products, and YouTube. I have been publishing occasional retrospectives, but I haven’t been sending them out to my newsletter, because I think they are kind of uninteresting.
I’m not currently putting a lot of energy into writing, but it remains an unresolved topic that occupies space in my mind.
Getting into Tears of the Kingdom
We recently got Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom for the Switch. Since then, most evenings, I play for an hour-ish while Lockwood (5) and Victor (3) give me directions. We are just starting to explore the world, and hopefully it will hold our attention for some time. Currently, this is often the best part of all three of our days.