A field log of AI, networking, and questionable decisions.https://kitapplegate.github.io/Kit-bashing/https://kitapplegate.github.io/Kit-bashing/blog/adhd-productivity/https://kitapplegate.github.io/Kit-bashing/blog/adhd-productivity/I built a Cthulhu timer and an AI life coach to keep my ADHD brain on track, then lost a school day building them.Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://kitapplegate.github.io/Kit-bashing/blog/board-of-directors/https://kitapplegate.github.io/Kit-bashing/blog/board-of-directors/I'm not a company. But when you lose the person you used to make every big decision with, apparently you build one out of AI instead.Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://kitapplegate.github.io/Kit-bashing/blog/cant-catch-up-with-my-fingers/https://kitapplegate.github.io/Kit-bashing/blog/cant-catch-up-with-my-fingers/I told myself I was a bad writer. It turns out I just hate typing.Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://kitapplegate.github.io/Kit-bashing/blog/diy-rabbit-r1/https://kitapplegate.github.io/Kit-bashing/blog/diy-rabbit-r1/I call it a marzipan moment when my brain won't let something go. This one ended with a $40 phone from Walmart and a homemade AI gadget.Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://kitapplegate.github.io/Kit-bashing/blog/dumpster-fire-all-stars/https://kitapplegate.github.io/Kit-bashing/blog/dumpster-fire-all-stars/I decided AI gave me superpowers, built my fantasy league its own draft platform and its own AI commissioner, and three days before the real draft, exactly one of ten seats is filled — mine.Wed, 26 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://kitapplegate.github.io/Kit-bashing/blog/four-more-hours-of-lunch/https://kitapplegate.github.io/Kit-bashing/blog/four-more-hours-of-lunch/A friend called two months of AI projects impressive. I still don't know if I believe him.Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://kitapplegate.github.io/Kit-bashing/blog/jev-break-room/https://kitapplegate.github.io/Kit-bashing/blog/jev-break-room/I built Break Room to learn Jev, then discovered during the interview that Jev was not connected.Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://kitapplegate.github.io/Kit-bashing/blog/more-than-a-super-google/https://kitapplegate.github.io/Kit-bashing/blog/more-than-a-super-google/A podcast joke about robot overlords, and what the last month of actually learning this stuff looked like.Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://kitapplegate.github.io/Kit-bashing/blog/people-mad-at-ai/https://kitapplegate.github.io/Kit-bashing/blog/people-mad-at-ai/I searched for AI on Bluesky looking for people to follow and couldn't find one positive post.Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://kitapplegate.github.io/Kit-bashing/blog/steve-the-shrimp/https://kitapplegate.github.io/Kit-bashing/blog/steve-the-shrimp/I talked myself out of a real shrimp business and built a fake shrimp on my desktop instead. My son laughed and asked why, Dad.Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://kitapplegate.github.io/Kit-bashing/blog/three-ais-one-night/https://kitapplegate.github.io/Kit-bashing/blog/three-ais-one-night/One night in September I had four different AIs going at my dining room table, and I was not who I would have pictured doing that.Thu, 08 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://kitapplegate.github.io/Kit-bashing/blog/why-the-jump/https://kitapplegate.github.io/Kit-bashing/blog/why-the-jump/Why a 49-year-old Coast Guard retiree with no degree decided to start over in IT — and why he's writing it all down.Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT