TL;DR: Full Business Pivot
My focus is generating content for self-taught developers, and I'm leaning fully into it. This includes creating more content on AI, CS Theory, Career Advancement, and more.
To that end, I'm moving back to Ghost and:
- Embracing subscriptions, once again while also allowing for one-off purchases.
- If you buy a course or book from me (non-subscription), you will be able to download it only, not stream it.
- I'm going to create smaller videos, 60-90 minutes, for lower prices rather than Big Courses for More Money.
- I'm actively creating workshops where you can work directly with me, either as a team or an individual.
I have a lot of experience and I've done a lot of things in my career, and I want to share that knowledge. The industry is changing, indeed, but our need to learn will never go away.
I want to help with that.
What Does This Mean?
If you're an existing customer and you would come here to stream your stuff, no worries! You can head over to the legacy site, which is right here, or you can download your course and run it locally.
If you're curious, "run it locally" means double-clicking on the index.html file:
You can, of course, just watch the videos directly from disk. Either way, here's what your site will look like:
Your Downloads and Videos
If you're looking for your downloads, you can head over to the legacy downloads page and I'll send along an email with links to you. These links will include the course files as well.
Due to the size of the videos, the course files can be quite large. If they're too big to download, worry not, you can still stream at the legacy site. Just log in as usual and off you go.
Why Do You Change Things?
I'm always trying to adapt and tweak what I do. Right now, my focus is on ease of content delivery. AI is really heating how just how fast we can build things, and I'm leaning in as much as I can. The old site (at app.bigmachine.io) was built almost 100% with Claude Code, as I used it to convert a Ruby on Rails app to Nuxt.
That was fun, but even that didn't allow me the speed of something like Ghost. I also have an email list built in here, which means I can reduce cost and integration complexity with my old service, Kit (aka "Convert Kit"). I love them, but I just don't need that level of automation for what I do.
Will I change this site again? I don't know - probably. That's who I am and what I do. The important thing is that I never leave anyone behind. If you had a subscription or bought something from me in the past, I will always make sure you're supported.
Cheers,
Rob
