What I'm doing now | Cory Zue

Oct 16, 2025

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I’m still living in Cape Town. My kids are 5 (Victor) and nearly 7 (Lockwood).

At work, I’m splitting my time between my Django SaaS boilerplate, SaaS Pegasus,<br>and some contracting gigs. It’s a nice balance of things, though a bit more to juggle than I’m used to.

Me and the boys at a market. September, 2025.

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Here’s a more zoomed-in picture of my life in the last couple months.

Working (or playing?) with agents

At work I’ve been spending most of my time messing around with agents.<br>This involves both using agents to code, which is getting ever more effective (and also ever more complicated!).<br>But it also involves building agents—both inside SaaS Pegasus, and in some other work I’m helping other organizations with.<br>I’ve been making heavy use of Pydantic AI and really loving it.<br>You can learn more in this video I made about using Pydantic AI with Django.

Mulling over the future of Pegasus

With AI being a larger and larger part of how people write code, I’ve been thinking more and more about the future of SaaS Pegasus<br>and the business model of selling a proprietary codebase.<br>I still have more questions than answers on the topic, though it’s something I know I need to be addressing<br>in order to keep myself and Pegasus relevant.

Enjoying dad life

With our youngest turning five, it feels like family life has turned yet another corner.<br>I had the boys by myself for the last two weeks and—while it was certainly tiring—it had none of the soul-crushing<br>exhaustion that I’m used to from past stints of solo parenting.<br>Also, the boys are turning into little humans in front of my eyes.<br>Lockwood—turning seven next week—has really started impressing me with his ideas, questions, and perspective on the world,<br>regularly saying things I haven’t thought of before, or asking questions I don’t know the answers to.<br>It’s a super fun age!

Previously

June, 2025

Getting ready for travel

We are going to North America for all of July.<br>Will be touring around New England and Toronto visiting with friends and family.<br>The family is excited!

We bought a house

In other personal news, we bought a house!<br>It’s not far from our current place in Vredehoek, Cape Town.<br>This is our first home purchase and we have previously only rented furnished places, so we have a lot to figure out<br>(and buy) in the next few months.

Move-in is slotted for September 1.

Adding a store to SaaS Pegasus

My biggest project in the past few months has been adding a codebase store to Pegasus.<br>And it’s live!<br>You can only access it via a secret link,<br>but I’ve announced it on the Pegasus Slack and even made a handful of sales already.

The official launch will be sometime in June because I am not willing to wait till after our travel.

Working on a talk

I’m going to be speaking at a Django Boston meetup while I’m in town—so I’m working on my talk.

The working title is “How to build one-person businesses with Django”.

I will probably not update this for July while we’re traveling.

Updates from May, 2025

Learning Astro, and using it to launch a new website

I recently built a new website with Astro.<br>The website is a directory of SaaS boilerplates.<br>I’m pretty happy with how it came out!

Astro is the latest static site builder I’ve tried (previously: Jekyll, Hugo, Next.js).<br>And—after spending a week with it—I really loved it.<br>I’m now tempted to port some of my other sites—especially this one—to Astro.

Figuring out my YouTube channel

I have a programming YouTube channel, which serves as a form of marketing<br>and documentation for Pegasus.<br>Right now the content is mostly unfiltered live streams of me building something<br>with Django and Pegasus.

I have the sense that I could make my content a lot better, but that it would also take a lot more effort<br>per video—and I’ve been debating whether this is a good idea.

My short term idea is to produce one higher-quality video and see how different the performance is,<br>and then use that to determine next steps.

Pondering the future of this website (and writing, for me)

In a similar vein, I’m not sure what I’m doing with this website anymore.

Last year I thought I should try to produce more ambitious writing, but that mostly failed.<br>This year my writing has mostly taken a back-burner to coding, working on products, and YouTube.<br>I have been publishing occasional retrospectives, but I haven’t been sending them out to my newsletter,<br>because I think they are kind of uninteresting.

I’m not currently putting a lot of energy into writing, but it remains an unresolved topic that<br>occupies space in my mind.

Getting into Tears of the Kingdom

We recently got Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom for the Switch.<br>Since then, most evenings, I play for an hour-ish while Lockwood (5) and Victor (3) give me directions.<br>We are just starting to explore the world, and hopefully it will hold our attention...