Q1 is done. Feels like time is flying by this year already. We’ve already hit that gross humid stage in Chicago. I’m sure all the AI data centers aren’t contributing to climate change.
Anyway, I’ve been hard at work both at the day job as well as hammering out personal projects. I’ve been spending a lot more time setting up systems for 45Squared, my web development company that I started back in 2016 crazy to think it will be turning 10 years old this year!
I built a custom CRM for monitoring and managing incoming leads. The frontend lives in my home lab but reaches out to a DynamoDB table where I have leads being scraped using Google Places through an automated Lambda. Some other features:
- Email sending and templating
- Email tracking and unsubscribe
- Incorporated SEOScoreAPI so I can get quick scores
- Gemma4 Integration for suggesting which leads to contact
- Custom scraper for enriching leads with phone numbers, addresses publicly available emails
- Apollo.io for email validation
- Hunter.io for email searching
- AWS Cost agent integrated
- Stripe and Quickbooks Revenue being tracked
So far i’ve gotten 3 unsubscribes and sent over 100 emails! Success!
SEOScoreAPI is continuing to slowly grow with over 1000 audits. I built in ADA compliance checking after reading about so many frivolous lawsuits on Reddit. I also added GEO scoring so that you can gauge how well your site is readable by LLM’s.
My Fantasy Football pipeline is working and I think it’s ready for the next season! I’ll still probably lose but at least this year I will be able to blame technology again.
The build remediation pipeline is working swimmingly. I’ve been integrating it into every pipeline I setup so that I can continue to build data for training a true DevOps AI agent on at some point.
I’m still active on UpWork and taking on new work there as it comes to me. Bidding on jobs with UpWork is an absolute nightmare. My last engagement was handling background noise with AWS Lex.
My AWS Cost Agent now supports multiple accounts as well as tracking AI/Bedrock usage costs. I will be uploading a video about how this works soon.
Seems like there is more and I’m sure there is. If you want to hear more about any individual project feel free to reach out to me at anytime!
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