Adam Fortuna
@adamfortuna.com
Full-stack product developer (Rails/React) in Salt Lake City, UT. I love enlivening experiences, visualizing data, and making playful websites.
📚 Founder @hardcover.app
🎧 Developer @libro.fm
✍️ Blogger @ https://adamfortuna.com
📚 Founder @hardcover.app
🎧 Developer @libro.fm
✍️ Blogger @ https://adamfortuna.com
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Adam Fortuna
@adamfortuna.com
· Nov 23
My interests, for the real-people-algorithm. 👋
🏔️ Hiking
📚 Books
🟰 Equality
🧙♂️ Fantasy
👨💻 Web dev
✍️ Blogging
🎲 Board games
🏋️ Olympic lifting
🧘 Quantified self
👾 Science fiction
🧑🎨 Interior design
🌱 Personal growth
🦵 ACL tear recovery
🇯🇵 Learning Japanese
📊 Data visualizations
💸 Index fund investing
🏔️ Hiking
📚 Books
🟰 Equality
🧙♂️ Fantasy
👨💻 Web dev
✍️ Blogging
🎲 Board games
🏋️ Olympic lifting
🧘 Quantified self
👾 Science fiction
🧑🎨 Interior design
🌱 Personal growth
🦵 ACL tear recovery
🇯🇵 Learning Japanese
📊 Data visualizations
💸 Index fund investing
Excited to share my 2025 Hardcover Wrapped!
This was a fun holiday project to put together. Over the last 2 weeks, we sketched ideas as a team, dot voted on concepts, prototyped in Figma and turned those into this data-driven, animated wrapped! Love how it turned out.
hardcover.app/@adam/wrappe...
This was a fun holiday project to put together. Over the last 2 weeks, we sketched ideas as a team, dot voted on concepts, prototyped in Figma and turned those into this data-driven, animated wrapped! Love how it turned out.
hardcover.app/@adam/wrappe...
Adam's 2025 Hardcover Wrapped
Adam read 43 books in 2025. See their reading journey!
hardcover.app
January 1, 2026 at 6:42 PM
Excited to share my 2025 Hardcover Wrapped!
This was a fun holiday project to put together. Over the last 2 weeks, we sketched ideas as a team, dot voted on concepts, prototyped in Figma and turned those into this data-driven, animated wrapped! Love how it turned out.
hardcover.app/@adam/wrappe...
This was a fun holiday project to put together. Over the last 2 weeks, we sketched ideas as a team, dot voted on concepts, prototyped in Figma and turned those into this data-driven, animated wrapped! Love how it turned out.
hardcover.app/@adam/wrappe...
Posted my annual 2025 Year in Review Blog post
It was a busy on: new house, new job, new dog, lots of work on Hardcover, and trying to not stay glued to the news. It was one of the most active in my life, that's for sure.
adamfortuna.com/2025-year-in...
It was a busy on: new house, new job, new dog, lots of work on Hardcover, and trying to not stay glued to the news. It was one of the most active in my life, that's for sure.
adamfortuna.com/2025-year-in...
My 2025 Year in Review
New house, new job, new dog, new schedule and staying grounded during a stressful year.
adamfortuna.com
December 31, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Posted my annual 2025 Year in Review Blog post
It was a busy on: new house, new job, new dog, lots of work on Hardcover, and trying to not stay glued to the news. It was one of the most active in my life, that's for sure.
adamfortuna.com/2025-year-in...
It was a busy on: new house, new job, new dog, lots of work on Hardcover, and trying to not stay glued to the news. It was one of the most active in my life, that's for sure.
adamfortuna.com/2025-year-in...
Going to try to start a new habit in 2026: actually reviewing the books I read. 😅
Starting it early.
hardcover.app/books/moneti...
Starting it early.
hardcover.app/books/moneti...
Adam's Review of Monetizing Innovation: How Smart Companies Design the Product Around the Price by Madhavan Ramanujam and Georg Tacke - Hardcover
Read Adam's review of Monetizing Innovation: How Smart Companies Design the Product Around the Price by Madhavan Ramanujam and Georg Tacke on Hardcover
hardcover.app
December 31, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Going to try to start a new habit in 2026: actually reviewing the books I read. 😅
Starting it early.
hardcover.app/books/moneti...
Starting it early.
hardcover.app/books/moneti...
Reposted by Adam Fortuna
The most important post on Bluesky today
Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
December 29, 2025 at 2:38 PM
The most important post on Bluesky today
This thing is starting to take shape 🥳 Having OpenGraph images dynamically generated is the cherry on top.
December 28, 2025 at 8:43 PM
This thing is starting to take shape 🥳 Having OpenGraph images dynamically generated is the cherry on top.
Tried playing around with using Spec Kit+Claude Code+Opus 4.5 to generate a new version of Line Of Thought; my daily mood tracker I retired last year. Rebuilding it as an iOS app with HealthKit integration.
Took only the initial setup & 1 msg to get something running. 🫢
github.com/github/spec-...
Took only the initial setup & 1 msg to get something running. 🫢
github.com/github/spec-...
GitHub - github/spec-kit: 💫 Toolkit to help you get started with Spec-Driven Development
💫 Toolkit to help you get started with Spec-Driven Development - github/spec-kit
github.com
December 28, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Tried playing around with using Spec Kit+Claude Code+Opus 4.5 to generate a new version of Line Of Thought; my daily mood tracker I retired last year. Rebuilding it as an iOS app with HealthKit integration.
Took only the initial setup & 1 msg to get something running. 🫢
github.com/github/spec-...
Took only the initial setup & 1 msg to get something running. 🫢
github.com/github/spec-...
The duality of side projects.
December 23, 2025 at 11:30 PM
The duality of side projects.
Reposted by Adam Fortuna
Behold, the end of year developer. An unflinching look at the survival period of "working" during the holidays.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ps06...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ps06...
The End of Year Developer: A Nature Documentary
YouTube video by Cassidy Williams
www.youtube.com
December 23, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Behold, the end of year developer. An unflinching look at the survival period of "working" during the holidays.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ps06...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ps06...
One game that changed my life was SimCity 2000. It shaped how I think about building products - before I even knew the term. Just published a new blog post about how it impacted me.
From SimCity 2000 to Ruby on Rails: How Games Sparked My Love of Orchestration
adamfortuna.com/from-simcity...
From SimCity 2000 to Ruby on Rails: How Games Sparked My Love of Orchestration
adamfortuna.com/from-simcity...
From SimCity 2000 to Ruby on Rails: How Games Sparked My Love of Orchestration
My love for designing systems started from an unlikely game.
adamfortuna.com
December 21, 2025 at 9:21 PM
One game that changed my life was SimCity 2000. It shaped how I think about building products - before I even knew the term. Just published a new blog post about how it impacted me.
From SimCity 2000 to Ruby on Rails: How Games Sparked My Love of Orchestration
adamfortuna.com/from-simcity...
From SimCity 2000 to Ruby on Rails: How Games Sparked My Love of Orchestration
adamfortuna.com/from-simcity...
Trying out Skylight.io on Hardcover to find some easy improvements. it's helped shed light on areas that had some queries I wasn't expecting, but overall things are looking better than I thought.
700 req/min
100ms avg response
1.3s 95% percentile
Biggest concern: 40% of requests are API searches 😅
700 req/min
100ms avg response
1.3s 95% percentile
Biggest concern: 40% of requests are API searches 😅
December 20, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Trying out Skylight.io on Hardcover to find some easy improvements. it's helped shed light on areas that had some queries I wasn't expecting, but overall things are looking better than I thought.
700 req/min
100ms avg response
1.3s 95% percentile
Biggest concern: 40% of requests are API searches 😅
700 req/min
100ms avg response
1.3s 95% percentile
Biggest concern: 40% of requests are API searches 😅
Ohh, this is nifty! Someone built u/hardcoverbot using the Hardcover API to replace the Goodreads bot (deprecated API). /r/suggetmeabook has made the switch!
I've been a fan of this subreddit for a while, and it was the inspiration for Hardcover Prompts.
www.reddit.com/r/suggestmea...
I've been a fan of this subreddit for a while, and it was the inspiration for Hardcover Prompts.
www.reddit.com/r/suggestmea...
From the suggestmeabook community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the suggestmeabook community
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December 17, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Ohh, this is nifty! Someone built u/hardcoverbot using the Hardcover API to replace the Goodreads bot (deprecated API). /r/suggetmeabook has made the switch!
I've been a fan of this subreddit for a while, and it was the inspiration for Hardcover Prompts.
www.reddit.com/r/suggestmea...
I've been a fan of this subreddit for a while, and it was the inspiration for Hardcover Prompts.
www.reddit.com/r/suggestmea...
This is a great write up about Headless CMS vs DIY CMS.
I’ve gone back and forth between static and a CMS multiple times. Lately I’ve settled into a good flow with WordPress + GraphQL + Advanced Custom Fields. All 3 blogs I have use a headless CMS w/that setup.
www.sanity.io/blog/you-sho...
I’ve gone back and forth between static and a CMS multiple times. Lately I’ve settled into a good flow with WordPress + GraphQL + Advanced Custom Fields. All 3 blogs I have use a headless CMS w/that setup.
www.sanity.io/blog/you-sho...
“You should never build a CMS” | Sanity
Lee Robinson migrated cursor.com off Sanity. He made good points. Here's what he missed.
www.sanity.io
December 17, 2025 at 4:08 PM
This is a great write up about Headless CMS vs DIY CMS.
I’ve gone back and forth between static and a CMS multiple times. Lately I’ve settled into a good flow with WordPress + GraphQL + Advanced Custom Fields. All 3 blogs I have use a headless CMS w/that setup.
www.sanity.io/blog/you-sho...
I’ve gone back and forth between static and a CMS multiple times. Lately I’ve settled into a good flow with WordPress + GraphQL + Advanced Custom Fields. All 3 blogs I have use a headless CMS w/that setup.
www.sanity.io/blog/you-sho...
Reposted by Adam Fortuna
Listening to an anime mix tape (now mp3s) I made in high school and it's the most 1998 thing I own.
December 16, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Listening to an anime mix tape (now mp3s) I made in high school and it's the most 1998 thing I own.
Hardcover hit a new milestone today that I don't think I've seen before: 1,000+ daily active users! 🥳
We've been steadily in the 900s the last week or two, so we'd been close for a while.
We've been steadily in the 900s the last week or two, so we'd been close for a while.
December 16, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Hardcover hit a new milestone today that I don't think I've seen before: 1,000+ daily active users! 🥳
We've been steadily in the 900s the last week or two, so we'd been close for a while.
We've been steadily in the 900s the last week or two, so we'd been close for a while.
Trying something new this year with my personal lists - creating a "Favorites of 2025" one. It's an odd mix of romance and violence 😅 hardcover.app/@adam/lists/...
Favorite Reads of 2025 13 books by Adam
In an attempt to try to remember my favorites from each year, I'm going to start creating a best-of list to look back on. This will only include books I rated 5⭐ for the year, so to even make this lis...
hardcover.app
December 14, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Trying something new this year with my personal lists - creating a "Favorites of 2025" one. It's an odd mix of romance and violence 😅 hardcover.app/@adam/lists/...
Our 1898 house’s fireplace was one of the areas we wanted to eventually tackle. We didn’t expect to get to it this year, but we just wrapped up our remodel! (After ~2.5 weeks).
Super happy with the result and having a cozy reading nook next to it. 🔥📚
Super happy with the result and having a cozy reading nook next to it. 🔥📚
December 13, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Our 1898 house’s fireplace was one of the areas we wanted to eventually tackle. We didn’t expect to get to it this year, but we just wrapped up our remodel! (After ~2.5 weeks).
Super happy with the result and having a cozy reading nook next to it. 🔥📚
Super happy with the result and having a cozy reading nook next to it. 🔥📚
Reposted by Adam Fortuna
I've done my best today to add almost all of the books mentioned here to @hardcover.app so you can start compiling your own horror TBRs for 2026. hardcover.app/@Tender/list...
Jump Scares' New Horror Books (2026) 279 books by Jacob Tender
Emily C. Hughes compiles the year's forthcoming releases in horror literature.
hardcover.app
December 8, 2025 at 11:30 PM
I've done my best today to add almost all of the books mentioned here to @hardcover.app so you can start compiling your own horror TBRs for 2026. hardcover.app/@Tender/list...
Reposted by Adam Fortuna
Every year, @emilyhughes.bsky.social publishes a massive calendar of releases in horror literature for the upcoming year. The list for 2026 is massive. readjumpscares.com/2025/12/05/t...
The 2026 Horror List & Other Year-End Miscellany
The 2026 horror list, a Horror for Weenies gift plug, and some podcasts.
readjumpscares.com
December 8, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Every year, @emilyhughes.bsky.social publishes a massive calendar of releases in horror literature for the upcoming year. The list for 2026 is massive. readjumpscares.com/2025/12/05/t...
Created my first Claude Code skill yesterday: `/issue <n>`. It will:
1. Load the GH issue
2. Local git branch
3. Plan solution (+iterate w/me)
4. Execute plan until all tests pass
5. Push branch, create draft PR
W/Happy I can do this from anywhere from my phone. Variable rewards though 😂
1. Load the GH issue
2. Local git branch
3. Plan solution (+iterate w/me)
4. Execute plan until all tests pass
5. Push branch, create draft PR
W/Happy I can do this from anywhere from my phone. Variable rewards though 😂
December 6, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Created my first Claude Code skill yesterday: `/issue <n>`. It will:
1. Load the GH issue
2. Local git branch
3. Plan solution (+iterate w/me)
4. Execute plan until all tests pass
5. Push branch, create draft PR
W/Happy I can do this from anywhere from my phone. Variable rewards though 😂
1. Load the GH issue
2. Local git branch
3. Plan solution (+iterate w/me)
4. Execute plan until all tests pass
5. Push branch, create draft PR
W/Happy I can do this from anywhere from my phone. Variable rewards though 😂
If anyone’s at Dragonsteel Nexus 2025 and wants to meetup, let me know! I’ll be here all three days and at the ball tonight.
December 4, 2025 at 7:11 PM
If anyone’s at Dragonsteel Nexus 2025 and wants to meetup, let me know! I’ll be here all three days and at the ball tonight.
So, I just learned that the last few months of talking to my wife about Claude Code, she heard it as “clawed code”. 🦞
As in code I had to “claw” my way through to complete. 🦀
As in code I had to “claw” my way through to complete. 🦀
December 4, 2025 at 4:19 PM
So, I just learned that the last few months of talking to my wife about Claude Code, she heard it as “clawed code”. 🦞
As in code I had to “claw” my way through to complete. 🦀
As in code I had to “claw” my way through to complete. 🦀
Learned two things on Hardcover today:
- Our servers held up under high load
- We have a bot problem we need to urgently address 😅
- Our servers held up under high load
- We have a bot problem we need to urgently address 😅
December 3, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Learned two things on Hardcover today:
- Our servers held up under high load
- We have a bot problem we need to urgently address 😅
- Our servers held up under high load
- We have a bot problem we need to urgently address 😅
In 20 minutes at 6pm MST I'll be hosting this months Hardcover Hangout on Discord!
Todays focus: a tour of the Hardcover API
Including some of the most used endpoints, limitations, and plenty of time for questions. 📚
canary.discord.com/events/83555...
Todays focus: a tour of the Hardcover API
Including some of the most used endpoints, limitations, and plenty of time for questions. 📚
canary.discord.com/events/83555...
Discord - Group Chat That’s All Fun & Games
Discord is great for playing games and chilling with friends, or even building a worldwide community. Customize your own space to talk, play, and hang out.
canary.discord.com
December 3, 2025 at 12:40 AM
In 20 minutes at 6pm MST I'll be hosting this months Hardcover Hangout on Discord!
Todays focus: a tour of the Hardcover API
Including some of the most used endpoints, limitations, and plenty of time for questions. 📚
canary.discord.com/events/83555...
Todays focus: a tour of the Hardcover API
Including some of the most used endpoints, limitations, and plenty of time for questions. 📚
canary.discord.com/events/83555...
Nope, not a Fortuna I know. 😅
“Forget about making the pyramid. I don’t even know if they want a pebble.”
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/30/m...
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/30/m...
An industry focused on death faces an existential crisis
The small, family run companies that make traditional memorialization products like gravestones are facing the dual challenges of tariffs and cremation.
www.cnbc.com
December 1, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Nope, not a Fortuna I know. 😅