// veteran. founder. builder.

Michael D. Connell Jr.

I got to software later than most, and I build like it matters — because for me it did. Founder of Life Re:Scripted, author of The Phoenix Protocol.

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mdc@techvet: ~
$ whoami
veteran. founder. builder.
$ uptime
rebuilt later than most — shipping anyway
$ ls ./current
life-rescripted/  the-phoenix-protocol.book  mdc-techvet.dev

// current builds

What I'm shipping

Life Re:Scripted
Flagship
Reclaim. Rebuild. Reignite.

A newsletter written from inside the rebuild — by a disabled veteran, for anyone whose life stopped working and who is putting one back together. The platform grows from here.

mdc-techvet.dev
This site.

Personal portfolio, blog, and book home. React 19 + React Router prerendering, Tailwind v4, shadcn/ui, MDX content, and Supabase-backed forms — deployed on Vercel.

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The Phoenix Protocol book cover — gold geometric phoenix on black

// The Phoenix Protocol · September 2026

You don't need motivation. You need a system that runs when motivation doesn't.

The Phoenix Protocol is a daily operating system for rebuilding who you are — written by someone who needed one first. It's for people who are functioning but fraying, and done starting over.

About the book

// latest writing

From the blog

July 11, 2026 · 3 min
How Life Re:Scripted Started

The origin of Life Re:Scripted — the tool I went looking for, the two shelves I found instead, and the gap between them.

April 12, 2026 · 4 min
Why Veterans Build

Mission, discipline, and the handover — three habits that translate cleanly from the service to a code editor.

March 9, 2026 · 4 min
Shipping Software While Disabled

Pacing, energy management, and the boring tooling decisions that protect your focus when capacity runs low.