Nathan Pitman

Month three of my AI log.

Month two of my AI log.

Kicking off a monthly log of what I'm actually doing with AI, at work and at home.

Looking back on the "Going It Alone" Q&A-style interview series I ran 20+ years ago, I've tracked down the same five self-employed friends for a 2026 follow-up - 7 new questions and a whole two decades of perspective!

I’ve got two separate social graphs right now (one on Bluesky, one on Mastodon) and no real sense of how much they overlap.

Tim Langdell — the trademark troll who spent decades threatening anyone using the word 'edge' near video games — has filed yet another federal complaint against Mobigame, despite his previous losses vs Future Publishing, Electronic Arts, and Mobigame them…

Childhood trips to the local library sparked unexpected discoveries.

Sixteen years ago I wrote three sentences about email signatures being a mess.

A reflection on ExpressionEngine and the 52 add-ons I built over a decade of agency work, prompted by Ryan Masuga's LinkedIn post marking the 16th anniversary of devot:ee.

A full energy economy mod for OpenTTD that introduces nuclear and renewable industries over time — built for my own amusement.

From BBC Micro to browser - how nostalgia for text adventures, a dog-eared Ken Williams memoir, and some late-night Replit sessions led to a mobile-friendly port of Colossal Cave Adventure, built entirely on iOS.

After five years away from writing code, AI tools reignited a passion for building things — and changed what it means to be a solo maker forever.

The story of how nathanpitman.com — a personal blog that went dark when its host shut down — was recovered from the Wayback Machine and rebuilt with Astro.

Pretty pleased with this one, we just launched a lovely little site at Nine Four for our client Design & Contract Interiors.

Sometimes people ask, so to save tweets here’s a quick summary:

Drag this bookmarklet link to your bookmarks bar in Google Chrome, browse to Yahoo!

This little gem is going to become real annoying real quick.

Adobe Fireworks is dead

> Something occurred to me last night.

So often I think I should write more here on the ups and downs of running your own business but somehow the time required always evades me.

I’m posting this here on behalf of the guys at Bancroft Developments.