Life Update April 2026

Where I’ve Been #

It has been almost a full year since my last update, and this project has almost entirely stalled-out. Sometimes I wonder why I am still trying to make this Studio Mystery thing work. I can’t work on it consistently, I’m not building a real audience or industry connections, and as my wife likes to remind me, the name and branding are terrible.

Oh well. I’ve completed nastier projects before. Just gotta take it one step at a time.

Over the Winter #

I will say I have done a lot in the past few months. I’ve killed the SAAS project Shorter.Services without ever showing it to a single customer. There’s a lesson in product-market-fit somewhere in that experience. I’ve also been doing some work for a local non-profit by repurposing a lot of the Shorter code into a web app template called Polybub. That took a fair bit of time and focus.

Current Focus #

Recently, I picked up my mech fiction draft SoftWar again, and have been running through it, chapter by chapter, making edits. In addition, I’ve shelved my 2.5D RPG, Esmerelda: The Black Amber Covenant for like the 10th time in 6 years. Lol. It hurts so much to write that.

Crazy how little real progress I’ve made in the last eleven months, compared to how often I think about these projects.