I'm Back

It’s been over two years since I last posted here. That’s… not great. But I’m back, and I want to make more of an effort to write semi-regularly.

A lot has happened since late 2023, so here’s the quick version.

The Fediverse Experiment

If you followed along with my earlier posts, you’ll know I was deep into the self-hosted Mastodon rabbit hole. Well, that fizzled. I gave it a proper shot but the fediverse wasn’t for me. I ended up back on X. Find me at x.com/cdrum.

Work

Around the time of my last post, I joined an Antler entrepreneurship residency in Q4 2023 and, after successfully raising a seed round, co-founded Levit8, an AI / HRTech startup. The thing I enjoyed most (besides building another product from 0 to 1) was I really got back into coding. Something I have missed… TLDR;, I left at the end of 2024 and joined Alternatives.pe as CTO.

Alternatives is a B2B data platform for private market intelligence across Southeast Asia and Australia. I own the architecture end-to-end, from the Python/Django backend and Next.js frontend through to the AWS infrastructure. I manage a small engineering team. It’s the kind of role where I still get to make the big calls while staying hands-on in the code every day, which is exactly what I wanted.

AI Agents and Coding Tools

My interests have largely zeroed in on AI agents. Coding agents, agent orchestration. It’s moving fast and I’m having a lot of fun with it.

I’ve been playing around with Warp, Codex, Claude Code. I’m using Codex and Claude a lot these days. I generally prefer Claude, but Codex works well for much of my use cases too.

I’m also messing around with OpenClaw, trying to find a clear use case for myself. And yes, I bought a Mac Mini for it. Claude Code Dispatch also looks very interesting, something I need to find some time to dig into.

What’s Next

I’ve been working on a side project. Something I’ll announce soon, it’s open source, and it’s a tool I actually want to use myself. More on that later.

As for this blog: no big promises, but more than once every two years would be a good start.