Adam Nason, a Skills Timeline

2025
Basic AI Experiments: ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity & Copilot
gemini export to sheets

Like everyone else, my AI usage has grown significantly over the past year. It started with ChatGPT though I recently started dabbling more with other tools as well. My current project that I have written about here is BitcoinTop250.com which centers around organizing data into a compelling story that I…Read More

Building BitcoinTop250: HTML, CSS and AI Help
chatgpt css question

Continuing the short series on what went behind building BitcoinTop250.com, I conceded that in order to get the site up in a relatively brief amount of time, I needed to hack together a way to conform the data into html tables that I could paste into…Read More

Building BitcoinTop250.com: Data Tables to Web
Building BitcoinTop250.com: Data Tables to Web

One of my favorite websites is Tankathon, a site that tracks draft positioning for different sports based on where those teams are at in the standings. The running joke in sports is that teams may sometimes tank (lose on purpose) in order to move up in the draft. The site…Read More

Bitcoin and Institutions: A Deep Research Project
bitcoin logo

Over the last quarter, I took an interest in Bitcoin and, more broadly, digital assets. What does this new technology that is uniquely global but American-driven look like in a country where lawmakers & regulators finally embrace it with open arms? Later in 2025, I expect some regulations to come…Read More

Building BitcoinTop250: Using ChatGPT to make a logo
bitcoin top 250 logo chatgpt

bitcoin top 250 logo chatgpt This is going to be one of my shorter posts. I have not tested logo creation a whole lot yet and have only done it for a few projects within ChatGPT. I remember at my prior consulting job, the company I…Read More

2024
Growing a content site to 400k views in a month
Growing a content site to 400k views in a month

I was in college when I discovered craft beer or at that time, “microbrews.” This would’ve been 2006 or so. Social media was just getting started up and blogs were all the rage. Then I was behind a desk or in a conference room with a team of people auditing…Read More

Tableau 101: The Basics
Tableau 101: The Basics

As someone who lived in Microsoft Excel for the past 20 years with my needs met, I have not needed to pick up new spreadsheet / data reporting software skills. Now, it seems like Excel skills are not that special anymore. So it’s time. Enter Tableau: a robust tool for…Read More

Bluesky Lists
Bluesky Lists

One more post about Bluesky. I love the lists feature on sites like Facebook and X and Bluesky is no different. I started making lists today and will re-visit some day in the future. It seems like there are hubs and communities that tend to flow from one corner of…Read More

Bluesky and re-discovery
Bluesky and re-discovery

Back in January of 2009, I published what I think was the first list of U.S. breweries on Twitter. There were nearly 1,500 operating breweries at that time and fewer than 50 of them were on Twitter. Today, the number of breweries has grown by 600% and I’d imagine every…Read More

How to Publish a Website: Re-visited
How to Publish a Website: Re-visited

Pressing publish on your own website is a visceral feeling. And I had not done it for years. But first, there was some major housekeeping to do. Note that this is NOT a tutorial but rather a summary of my day pushing my websites live again. I used to publish…Read More