26 years. Full stack.
Still shipping.
Hand me a spec and I’ll build it to the letter. Hand me an outcome and I’ll work out the rest. Available.
Full-stack engineering for the system you inherited: under-documented, business-critical, nobody left who knows why it works. One engineer is enough, because the AI work runs under guardrails, a metered budget and verification against source. TypeScript/Node, Postgres, Python/Django, WordPress.
Sites
Mileweave
AI-powered road trip planner with intelligent day segmentation.
reductio.us
Assessments in applied absurdity. The scenarios are ridiculous, the grading is not. Seven modules, every question graded against the statute it cites.
Verbatim
Public data, made explorable. Five datasets, one interface, zero editorial.
Helm
Open-source fleet dashboard for indie developers. Uptime, deploys, databases, and git activity on one screen.
whoami.fyi
Search collision detector. See what recruiters find when they Google your name. Free preview, $3 AI audit.
Picweave
Collaborative photo timeline. Upload photos separately, see them merged by timestamp and location.
Curios
Priors
Give four Claude models a black circle and one word, “improve,” 2,608 times, each in a fresh session. Nobody says what better means, so what each one reaches for is its prior.
Premia
Run an insurance company for a hundred years. Charge too little and the claims eat you. Charge too much and only the risky houses stay.
Orrery
A drum machine laid out like a solar system. Every ring is an instrument with its own number of steps, so a seven-step loop drifts against a sixteen and the pattern never quite comes back around.
Geigensatz
A keyboard instrument that never existed: eighty-eight strings, a rosined bow beside each, and every bow on one rack driven back and forth by a single crank.
Crank
An engine’s voice is timing. Give CRANK the geometry (cylinders, stroke cycle, bank angle, crank throws, firing order) and hear the engine purr or hum or thump.
Incognita
A world that exists only while someone is looking at it. The first visitor wakes a sleeping server, the ground is decided at the moment somebody looks at it, and when the last person leaves the machine shuts itself off and the world is gone for good.
Tools
Invoisaurus
Invoice generator. Web UI in, PDF out. Try the demo, or run it yourself.
clrk
A drop folder that files itself. Reads each document, files it by your rules.
Liberator
Removes paste-blocking, sticky headers, and selection restrictions.
rtfm
Local markdown documentation server. Zero network dependencies.
arcweave
Text config → SVG line chart generator.
whyis
CLI etymology reference.
How I Work
You get me.
My clients are mine. No subcontractors (unless AI agents count), no account manager, no handoffs. Scoping, the build, change requests and the invoice all come from the same person.
Spec or outcome.
Give me a precise spec and I’ll build it to the letter. Give me an idea and I’ll ask a few questions, then make it happen. If I think the idea is a bad one, I’ll say so before you pay for it.
Async and written.
Remote, async, outcome-oriented. A weekly written update covers most part-time engagements. Daily check-ins are fine when there’s enough moving to justify them. Small jobs need a spec and a few questions.
AI-accelerated, not AI-trusted.
Guardrail hooks block the known failure modes before they land, every run is metered, and output is verified against its source before it ships. The harness behind that is skill files, layered context docs, runbooks and custom agents. The research side of it is public: Priors.
Client Work
Current Engagement
2026 – presentCustom stock chart automation extension for Adobe Illustrator: React + TypeScript panel inside Illustrator, Node/Express API, Python parsing service running against OpenAI API on the backend. Sole engineer, including production operations on AWS. 14 releases in 13 weeks.
247wallst
2025Custom WordPress for a high-traffic financial news site. Theme architecture, versioned live-blog templates, real-time stock charts, Core Web Vitals and accessibility work.
Muck Rack
2023–2025Marketing engineering with Wagtail and Django. Owned the public-facing marketing site and the lead generation systems behind it.
The Motley Fool
2006–202317 years building the systems behind fool.com. Hired as the first front-end developer, led a 16-person UI team, then chose the IC path: CMS infrastructure, SEO tooling, lead gen platforms that drove $100M in revenue.
The Story
I’ve been building for the web since tables were for layout. Along the way: a FEMA contract building an accessibility-focused GIS application, 17 years at The Motley Fool, and marketing engineering at Muck Rack.
For most of that I was the engineer in the room with the non-engineers: reporting to CTOs, answering to CMOs, the one who got on the call with the vendor, and once the tech side of an SEC audit.
I’ve led teams, 16 people at the peak. These days I just want to build things.
The Sidekick
Chief Morale Officer and walking alarm clock.
Have a project?
I typically respond within a day.