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Engineer, worldbuilder, late-night nightcap blogger. Writing things down before I forget them.

Three decades in software, mostly systems and security. Currently in Eugene, building Asha and a cosmic horror novel called The Hush. Updated whenever the day quiets down.

Recent entries

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  1. 2026.05.19
    2026.05.19

    I think there's a thing in martial arts most people never practice. Between one pose and the next there's movement, and there's understanding inside the movement, and the instructor only ever…

  2. 2026.05.04

    A company I worked at became flush, and as a celebration decided the next logical move was rewriting most of the customer-facing platform. Not because it was failing, but because it was outdated,…

  3. 2026.04.29

    Last week I was in a training where they paired us up to write code with an LLM, which was a frustrating waste of a day in nearly every dimension except one: it made it really obvious that…

  1. 2025.12.03I feel like I'm doing these at the wrong time of day currently. Like a nightcap of sorts. Probably doesn't matter as these words are falling to an audience of none. Today I was toying with the…
  2. 2025.12.02Every technology gets the same flurries of woe and worry before it's even truly born. Plato had Socrates warning that writing would rot our memory—people trusting "external marks" instead of…
  3. 2025.12.01Today I worked out some sequence diagrams in PUML for some ways of handling old auth issues like deeplinks via SSO and passkey management. Neither of which is exciting to talk about. I also made…
  4. 2025.11.30I spent most of today playing with this site, mostly cleaning up some CSS inconsistencies and playing with getting a comment system going. The fact that it's run like a git repo made the entire…
  5. 2025.11.29I was lucky enough to catch Naked Lunch at the Eugene Art House. I took my younger son to see it, to which he described it later as "very creative" and "a little gay". I always find it impressive…

In the workshop

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  1. Asha

    coding · active

    A multi-harness AI workflow system: persistent identity, session memory, and domain-specific plugins for Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, and GitHub Copilot CLI, installed via direct symlink mount.

    Asha — Sanskrit — truth, reality, hope
  2. Thallus

    coding · active

    Umbrella repo for local-first AI agent infrastructure: Egregore, Familiar, Servitor, Scry, and thallus-core coordinated by a shared architecture contract.

    thallus — biology — the undifferentiated vegetative body of lichens and fungi
  3. The Hush

    writing · active

    A cosmic horror novel in long-form revision. Reality stays mundane; the protagonist's experience of it does not.

    Hush — Middle English husht — imitative. The word is the noise.
  4. botcore

    coding · active

    Python bot framework with Claude SDK integration. Discord sessions, command registry, conversation state across messages.

    bot + core — robot (← Czech robota: forced labor, R.U.R., 1920) + Latin cor: heart