Updated April 3, 2026
Lately, as of 4/1, I’ve decided to do another social media detox. It’s an idea from Cal Newport’s book Digital Minimalism where you spend a month breaking your habits. This has meant no Reddit, or short-form video. Even after just a few days of this, I’m already feeling a lot more mentally healthy.
I’ve been spending some time recently building new things. Some of these are just one-offs to get an idea out of my head, and others are utilities that I’ll use:
Line of Thought – This was originally my mood tracker. I’ve been messing around with turning it into a native iOS app. (Claude Code local)
Friend Census – A question game to get to know your friends better. (Claude Cowork on Mac Mini through Dispatch)
Glance – A self-hosted dashboard with whatever you want on it. I’m still figuring out what I want to see here. (Claude Cowork on Mac Mini through Dispatch)
AdamFortuna.com – Added comments on posts and a way to go back in time on the /now page (still iterating on this).
Daily Briefing – I’ve been iterating on a morning briefing that writes an Obsidian daily note with everything relevant to me. This includes things like: World news, local news, it knows what’s outstanding or urgent on Hardcover and schedules time on my calendar, it knows my yearly goals and nudges me towards them. Once I dial this in more I want to post about it.
WordPress post Sync – Between this blog, Minafi and the Hardcover blog, I have a lot of posts in WordPress. There’s a script that runs on my Mac Mini that fetches all recent posts, converts them to Markdown and stores them in my Obsidian Vault.
OpenClaw to Claude Loops & CoWork – I tried OpenClaw for a few weeks and had a ton of fun with it. However, since it can’t use my Claude Max plan, I decided to lean more into that. I’ve switched a lot of processes to use Claude Code Loops instead, calling skills. Most of these use CLI tools in addition to skills, which makes them more reliable.
I’ve been working on a bunch of different projects at Libro.fm that I’ll be able to share soon!
On the Hardcover side, we recently hit 80k users, and have been growing fast! We launched Hardcover Wrapped, The 2025 Year in Books, and recently I’ve been working on improved filtering and sorting options for all lists.
There’s sooo much I want to do. Sometimes it’s overwhelming. Setting reasonable expectations isn’t my strong suite. 😅
I’m currently listening to The Seven Year Slip, and reading Hyperbole and a Half
Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened. I’ve been leaning in to happier, more fun books recently as a distraction from world events. That’s led to running through many of the most popular romance books on Hardcover, and a lot of not-so-serious science fiction and fantasy.
I’ve been a big fan of the book Project Hail Mary since I listened to it back in 2021. I’d been watching the progress on the movie, and saw it in IMAX on release weekend. Somehow it lived up to the hype and was a ton of fun. I highly recommend it. It’s welcoming to have something so hopeful.