What I'm doing now
A snapshot of what I'm focused on at this moment in life. Inspired by the /now movement.
Life snapshot
Building
This blog
Turning a static site into a full backend — block-based posts, real analytics, a CMS I don't hate.
An AI coding workflow
Documenting every tool, hook, and shortcut that makes AI actually useful in a professional codebase.
Reading
The Pragmatic Programmer
Re-reading. Hits different when you have 8 years of mistakes to map it to.
Deep Work — Cal Newport
Trying to reclaim 2 focused hours a day from the always-on engineering culture.
Learning
Distributed systems fundamentals
Specifically consistency models and how they actually play out in production databases.
How LLMs really work
Not surface-level. Going through Andrej Karpathy's nanoGPT videos and building intuition.
Thinking about
Writing in public
Is it worth it? I think yes — but only if the writing is honest about what you don't know.
The 10× engineer myth
AI makes 10× output real. But 10× judgment? That's still rare. That's the actual edge.
Want to follow along? The blog is where this thinking ends up.
Read the blog