A snapshot of what I’m up to right now. Inspired by Derek Sivers’ nownownow.com. Last updated September 11, 2026.

Work

I run Two Bit Consulting with my wife and partner, Maura Cluthe. We do web design, IT support, and fractional technology leadership for individuals, non-profits, and small organizations doing meaningful work. We are always looking for new folks to work with! We currently have multiple projects going on and a couple queued up. I’m also constantly tweaking my own site. I’ve also been auditing older websites that I still manage and updating them to modern web standards — it’s interesting to see how far things have come in the last 15 years or so!

Life

Maura and I are doing well. Maura’s starting a new mural for the Lenexa Justice Center and I’m deep into some new artist and gallery web projects. The dogs are healthy and silly. Summer is coming to a close in Kansas City and the weather has finally started being more reasonable. I recently joined the Freelance Exchange of Kansas City’s Board as the Treasurer and Web Director. I’m excited to get involved with such a cool community and help out where I can. We also have an exciting new venture brewing, stay tuned for updates! As of early September, we’re one step closer to this becoming reality!

Reading

Working through several books at once, which is my natural state. You can see what I’m currently reading and what’s on deck on the books page.

Albums on repeat

  • Here Because of Hope by the Ezra Collective
  • Ow∞ by Sylvan Esso
  • ** I Must Be Dreaming by The Alabama Shakes
  • ** Wowed Out ** by Jim James
  • ** Frozen Charlotte ** by Jack White
  • ** Inferno ** by Boards of Canada
  • ** Better Dreaming ** by Tune Yards
  • ** Who is the Sky ** by David Byrne
  • ** The Mountain ** by The Gorillaz

This website

jakefowler.com runs on Hugo, a static site generator, deployed to DreamHost via GitHub Actions. The publishing workflow:

  • Blog posts: Write in Bear Notes, tag `, run the “Bear Publish” script — it extracts the note, builds front matter, copies images, commits to GitHub, cross-posts to Mastodon and Bluesky, and removes the tag when done
  • Books: Tracked in Hardcover, synced automatically to the site on every deploy via a Node script that hits their GraphQL API
  • Photos: Added to PixelFed and synced automatically via a GitHub cron job
  • Everything else: Edit relevant Bear Notes, run the “Publish Now Page” script — it overwrites the pages and pushes
  • A few people have asked, so I made it happen… I just launched a newsletter for the blog at jakefowler.com. Subscribe at jakefowler.com/subscribe or grab the RSS feed if that’s more your style.