About Me

Musician, programmer, pedal-builder. Loves to learn and teach, loves call-in radio.

My music, Github, StackOverflow and projects.

Some Values

• Asking questions > looking smart.
• No thanks to clever code.
• Team code convention > personal style.
• 'Minimal Viable Product' is the gilded philosophical core of our exploitation economy.
• Mentorship programs are crucial to a thriving, self-aware company culture.
• A 'senior' developer is equal parts politician and technician.
• Deep-link, early and often.
• Modals, please no.

Books I Read and Liked in 2020

• The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
• The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro
• Being and Doing by Marcus Raskin
• Journey to the End of the Night by Ferdinand Celine
• The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
• Man in the Holocene by Max Frisch
• Time Will Darken It by William Maxwell

Teachers, World-Builders, Makers and other sorts of Interesting People

• Ned Batchelder
• Marcus Raskin
• Drexciya
• Fran Blanche
• Armin Ronacher
• Susan Potter
• Joel Spolsky
• Bartosz Milewski

Favy Podcasts

• Go Time
• RA Exchange
• Free Thoughts
• The Ralph Nader Radio Hour
• The Best Show

Two Steven Wright Jokes

I lost a buttonhole today.

One time the police stopped me for speeding. They said, "Oh, you know the speed limit is 55 miles an hour?" I said, "Yeah, I know. But I wasn't going to be out that long.".