01 / now

Updated May 2026

What I'm working on

Building agents — the kind that do things, not the kind that demo well. Tool use, long-horizon tasks, and the unglamorous plumbing that decides whether any of it survives contact with production.

Lately a lot of that runs on an NVIDIA DGX Spark on my desk — local models, real agent loops, no cloud round-trip. It's a good teacher: most of what looks trivial in a demo turns out not to be, and the honest work is in the parts that don't fit on a slide.

On the side: relearning RF for fun, reading more than I write, and saying no to most things.

02 / the long arc

Where the twenty years went

No single thread, which is the point. The same instincts kept showing up in different materials.

hardware

Boards, bring-up, the smell of a reflow oven. Learning that the schematic is a hopeful suggestion.

embedded

Firmware in places with no debugger and no second chances. Bytes are expensive again.

software

The usual — services, tools, the long middle of a career spent making things talk to each other.

security

Breaking things on purpose so they break less by accident. A useful way to think, not just a job.

radio frequency

Signals through air and noise. Physics doesn't negotiate, which I find restful.

public + private

Slow institutions and fast startups. Both taught me the schedule is never the real constraint.

03 / writing

Things I wrote down

Occasional notes, mostly to think more clearly. No schedule, no newsletter.

• I told an AI coding agent to write tests that catch bugs — a deliberately-wrong fix walked right past them31 May 2026

→ more as I write it.

04 / uses

What I reach for

Nothing exotic. The tools matter less than the habit of finishing.

editor

Neovim, because the muscle memory is paid off. Vim too.

shell

bash, zsh, tmux, and far too many aliases I can't remember writing.

machine

A Linux box that does the work, a laptop that follows it around, and macOS in the mix.

keyboard

Something mechanical and quiet. The two qualities are negotiable, never both.

05 / elsewhere

Find me