Just finished The Glass Castle.. oof

But it is…

Today marks 5 years of freelancing.
You can just start and make things.

🔥 We’re building a Bible notes app—not another Bible reader.

My Kiya girl turned 2 today 🎉

To me the best social app is where the people who interact with you and the people you interact with all hang out.

That could be here.
That could be X.
That could be Instagram.
That could be Snapchat.
That could be Threads.

Bahahhaa flaccid

"It is the glory of God to conceal things, but the glory of kings is to search things out." -Proverbs 25:2 ESV

Blogger still exists?! In 2009, I started my first ever side project. It was a blog called FeedMe! Post 🍞

Little did I know this would start my journey of side projects.

Took several weeks to design in Figma in my free time. Only took 1 day to dev it all in Webflow.

heyderekj.com

✨ new personal website for 2025

The goal is to make an app where you can save, organize, and recall your Bible study notes.

And make it fun for you and others.

This continues to be my biggest money saver. Also drinking more water has its savings.

Ooof. I diverted to Webflow. Thankfully it wasn’t having issues.

When the Figma Mac app is broken you study empty states..

IMO you can have joy and have disagreements. That's life. We are all complex humans.

seeing you create something that is more CSS and less JS

Respect this and, to me, we must welcome different viewpoints and perspectives otherwise we become narrow-minded and crazy.

THIS

Freedoms of speech > hate

I speak for many of us… We know where the libraries are and believe in the 2nd amendment and actually want what is best for America to grow.

Maybe because he ain’t one or crazy concept God puts all leaders in charge for a reason. We may never understand that reason but I support a direction of actually doing hard work to make America great again.

The worst part about being a designer is everyone has an opinion on your work.