A snapshot of what I’m up to right now. Inspired by Derek Sivers’ nownownow.com. Last updated September 7, 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 for things have come in the last 15 year or so!

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!

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

  • 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

Around the house

Maura and I are doing well. Maura recently finished a mural at Midtown KC Now and I’m deep into some new projects — more news soon! The dogs are healthy and silly. Summer is coming to a close in Kansas City and we decided to get out of town for a few days. We got tickets to see LCD Soundsystem at Red Rocks and spent a few days exploring the area. The weather was perfect there!

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.