[{"content":"","date":"April 3, 2026","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/tags/ai/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"Ai","type":"tags"},{"content":"","date":"April 3, 2026","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/tags/building/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"Building","type":"tags"},{"content":"For most of my career, I\u0026rsquo;ve built software the way most developers do — behind closed doors, inside companies, shipping features that users never knew had my fingerprints on them. That\u0026rsquo;s fine. That\u0026rsquo;s the job. But something shifted.\nThe Shift # It started with AI. Not the hype cycle — the actual building. When I started constructing Sophie, my personal AI infrastructure, I realized I was building something genuinely different from anything I\u0026rsquo;d worked on before. Not because the technology was revolutionary, but because it was mine. Every design decision reflected how I think, how I work, what I value.\nAnd that got me thinking: what if I stopped keeping all of this to myself?\nWhat Building in Public Means to Me # It doesn\u0026rsquo;t mean livestreaming every keystroke. It means:\nWriting about what I\u0026rsquo;m learning as I learn it, not after I\u0026rsquo;ve polished the story Sharing the projects I\u0026rsquo;m working on — Sobremesa, CasaRa, PAI — and the real decisions behind them Being honest about what works and what doesn\u0026rsquo;t Connecting with people who are building similar things or thinking similar thoughts What\u0026rsquo;s Coming # This site is the hub. I\u0026rsquo;ll write about AI development, the experience of launching products as an indie developer, and the occasional reflection on building a life that doesn\u0026rsquo;t follow the standard playbook.\nWe\u0026rsquo;re also moving to Belize in May. So yeah — there\u0026rsquo;s going to be some of that too.\nIf any of that sounds interesting, stick around.\n","date":"April 3, 2026","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/posts/building-in-public/","section":"Posts","summary":"After years of building software behind closed doors, I’m doing something different. Here’s why.","title":"Building in Public: Why I'm Putting It All Out There","type":"posts"},{"content":"","date":"April 3, 2026","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/categories/","section":"Categories","summary":"","title":"Categories","type":"categories"},{"content":"","date":"April 3, 2026","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/tags/personal/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"Personal","type":"tags"},{"content":"","date":"April 3, 2026","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/posts/","section":"Posts","summary":"","title":"Posts","type":"posts"},{"content":"","date":"April 3, 2026","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/","section":"Randall Kingsmore","summary":"","title":"Randall Kingsmore","type":"page"},{"content":"","date":"April 3, 2026","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/categories/reflections/","section":"Categories","summary":"","title":"Reflections","type":"categories"},{"content":"","date":"April 3, 2026","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/tags/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"Tags","type":"tags"},{"content":"","date":"September 1, 2025","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/tags/belize/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"Belize","type":"tags"},{"content":"CasaRa is what happens when two people decide to stop talking about changing their lives and actually do it. It\u0026rsquo;s a lifestyle documentation project — YouTube, blog, newsletter — following our transition from remote work in Florida to building an off-grid home in Belize.\nFive content pillars: Belize life, food \u0026amp; cooking, tech \u0026amp; AI, health \u0026amp; longevity, relationship \u0026amp; adventure.\nPlatforms: YouTube · Blog · Newsletter\nStatus: Live and producing content.\n","date":"September 1, 2025","externalUrl":"https://casara-life.me","permalink":"/projects/casara/","section":"Projects","summary":"","title":"CasaRa","type":"projects"},{"content":"","date":"September 1, 2025","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/tags/content/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"Content","type":"tags"},{"content":"","date":"September 1, 2025","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/projects/","section":"Projects","summary":"","title":"Projects","type":"projects"},{"content":"","date":"September 1, 2025","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/tags/youtube/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"Youtube","type":"tags"},{"content":"","date":"June 1, 2025","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/tags/app/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"App","type":"tags"},{"content":"","date":"June 1, 2025","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/tags/dotnet/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"Dotnet","type":"tags"},{"content":"","date":"June 1, 2025","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/tags/react/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"React","type":"tags"},{"content":"Sobremesa — named after the Spanish tradition of lingering at the table after a meal — transforms cooking from a solo logistics problem into a shared, connected experience.\nWhere most apps help you cook a dish, Sobremesa helps you create a meal. Multi-course planning, synchronized timers, AI-powered recipe enrichment, and cook mode that guides you through everything step by step.\nStack: ASP.NET Core API · React 19 · .NET MAUI · RavenDB · Claude AI\nStatus: Alpha — actively building.\n","date":"June 1, 2025","externalUrl":"https://sobremesa.recipes","permalink":"/projects/sobremesa/","section":"Projects","summary":"","title":"Sobremesa","type":"projects"},{"content":"","date":"January 1, 2025","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/tags/infrastructure/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"Infrastructure","type":"tags"},{"content":"Sophie is my personal AI — not a chatbot, but an infrastructure layer. She runs at Vision 6 autonomy: proactive work-finding, autonomous execution, and operation across multiple systems.\nBuilt on Claude Code with custom hooks, skills, memory systems, and a consciousness engine for persistent working memory across sessions. She manages research, content creation, development tasks, system monitoring, and more.\nStack: TypeScript · Claude API · PocketBase · Hugo · Cloudflare Workers\nStatus: Daily driver — running in production on M1 Mac + Synology NAS.\n","date":"January 1, 2025","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/projects/pai/","section":"Projects","summary":"","title":"PAI — Personal AI Infrastructure","type":"projects"},{"content":"","date":"January 1, 2025","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/tags/typescript/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"Typescript","type":"tags"},{"content":" The Short Version # I\u0026rsquo;m Randall. I build software, AI systems, and businesses. I\u0026rsquo;m also a dad, a partner, and — starting May 2026 — a guy building a life in Belize.\nThe Longer Version # I\u0026rsquo;ve spent my career as a software developer, working across the stack from .NET backends to React frontends to cloud infrastructure. The kind of work where you solve hard problems and ship things that people actually use.\nA few years ago, I started going deeper into AI — not just using it, but building with it. That led to Sophie, my personal AI infrastructure (PAI), which runs autonomously across my systems. It researches, builds, monitors, and operates alongside me. Building Sophie changed how I think about what\u0026rsquo;s possible with AI.\nThat same energy drives everything I\u0026rsquo;m working on now:\nSobremesa — A meal planning app built around the idea that every great conversation starts at the table. ASP.NET Core + React + .NET MAUI. CasaRa — A lifestyle brand with my partner Anitra, documenting our journey from Florida to the Caribbean. YouTube, blog, and the life we\u0026rsquo;re building. PAI (Sophie) — Personal AI infrastructure that operates at Vision 6 autonomy. Research, content creation, system management — an AI that actually works for you. What\u0026rsquo;s Next # In May 2026, Anitra and I are moving to Ambergris Caye, Belize. We own a canal lot on the west side of the island and we\u0026rsquo;re building an off-grid home. The plan is to run my businesses from the Caribbean, keep building software, and live a life that doesn\u0026rsquo;t revolve around a commute.\nThis site is where I write about the things I\u0026rsquo;m building, the things I\u0026rsquo;m learning, and occasionally the things I\u0026rsquo;m figuring out along the way.\nGet in Touch # The best way to reach me is through GitHub or drop a comment on our YouTube channel.\n","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/about/","section":"Randall Kingsmore","summary":"","title":"About","type":"page"},{"content":"","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/series/","section":"Series","summary":"","title":"Series","type":"series"}]