Now

What I’m working on right now. Last updated May 28, 2026.

Currently shipping

  • Job search — meeting the AI-native builders around Boulder and Denver, a lot of it through RMAIIG, publishing proof-of-work around AI tooling, and reaching back out to old friends and contacts to get back in the entrepreneurial spirit and see what everyone is building. Looking for a remote or Boulder-area IC role where iOS, product taste, and agent tooling compound. CV, About.
  • GravityWell continues to run unattended in four science exhibit installations, with a fifth (Singapore) in progress for summer 2026. Engineering case study at /gravity-well-case-study/.
  • DeskDays RTO tracker is live on the App Store. Privacy-first, zero network calls, watch companion. Case study, product page.
  • Awesome Timer rebuild spinning up. The 2014-era original is archived; a fresh take is in early planning.

Experimenting with

  • Hermes — I run the studio through Hermes now, Nous Research’s self-hosted agent framework. It replaced Fanta, my own multi-agent system, and does the same routing, memory, and scheduling with far less plumbing for me to maintain.
  • pi — fascinated by the lean, purpose-built harness idea behind Mario Zechner’s pi: something small and sharp aimed at one specific job rather than a general-purpose agent.

Recently shipped

  • synodic.co got a real content push (April–May 2026): the AI tooling pages, the GravityWell and DeskDays case studies, and the headless studio writeup. The site you are reading.
  • Boulder Startup Week 2026 as an attendee. May 4-8 across Boulder venues.

Reading and watching

  • Reading: Working in Public by Nadia Eghbal (solo-developer open-source economics, on the to-read list) and Malleable Software from Ink & Switch.
  • Watching and listening: video essays (Karsten Runquist, Thomas Flight, CinemaStix, Heavy Spoilers), coffee (James Hoffmann, Lance Hedrick), and AI (the AI Daily Brief on repeat, AI Engineer talks now and then). Most of it gets pulled into my Library RAG index.
  • Working through the directors and films people keep bringing up right now, mostly on the Criterion Channel. Recently marathoned every Paul Thomas Anderson; next up is the rest of Yorgos Lanthimos and Robert Altman, starting with Nashville.

Away from the desk

Training for the Rift gravel race in Iceland this July, with the usual Colorado mix of mountain biking and camping in between.

A now page in the tradition Derek Sivers started: short, dated, honest about what is and is not happening.