Self-taught since 13. Sold my first software company at 16 for $60K, the second for mid-six figures. Founded ventures since — some worked, some didn't. The failures taught more.

Currently founding developer at PodFirst, building tools for podcast creators.

• fusion — local fusion model provider. OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible endpoints, routing to a single model or a panel of models aggregated by a judge. Works with Claude Code.
• media-understanding — teaching machines to actually watch and listen, not just transcribe.
• CodeThenShip — free community where I teach coding by shipping real projects. AI is coming for vibe coders. Don't be one. Learn to actually build.
• dylans.link — personal site with in-browser text-to-speech, embeddings-based blog search, its own MCP server, and a live portfolio tracker. Over-built on purpose.

TypeScript and Node, Next.js and React. Elixir when it fits, Rust when it's fun. Local LLMs, MCP, FFmpeg media pipelines. Deploys are SSH and Docker. No Kubernetes.

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