Build-in-public notes on AI side income and engineering deep-dives from a senior software engineer.https://charlesmcquain.dev/en-ushttps://charlesmcquain.dev/blog/the-real-ai-side-hustle-is-live/https://charlesmcquain.dev/blog/the-real-ai-side-hustle-is-live/My first book is live on Amazon — the honest result of testing the '$10k/month with AI' methods every YouTuber sells. What the process took, and what's next.Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTai-side-incomebuild-in-publicsolo-founderhttps://charlesmcquain.dev/blog/why-i-cut-my-ai-book-in-half/https://charlesmcquain.dev/blog/why-i-cut-my-ai-book-in-half/I planned an 80,000-word book, then cut it from 17 chapters to 11 before the draft was done. The build-in-public story of why shorter got better.Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTai-side-incomebuild-in-publicsolo-founderhttps://charlesmcquain.dev/blog/60-days-claude-code-side-income/https://charlesmcquain.dev/blog/60-days-claude-code-side-income/A senior engineer's honest 60-day log of using AI tooling to ship real products — what actually got built, what it earned, and what I'd do differently.Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTai-side-incomeclaude-coderevenue-reportbuild-in-publichttps://charlesmcquain.dev/blog/how-i-built-this-site-with-claude-code/https://charlesmcquain.dev/blog/how-i-built-this-site-with-claude-code/A build log of charlesmcquain.dev — why I chose Astro and Tailwind, how I drove the whole thing with Claude Code, and the architecture decisions (and one nasty CSS bug) along the way.Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTclaude-codeastrobuild-in-public