What I'm into right now.

Building

A small constellation of solo experiments. Nothing public yet — I prefer to ship something quietly and let the work speak. The unifying thread is: make the small thing excellent first, then decide if it deserves to grow.

Reading

Re-reading Designing Data-Intensive Applications for the third time (it keeps giving). Also: more game design writing than is strictly responsible for a backend architect.

Learning

How to think clearly with AI in the loop. The interesting work is not in the prompt — it's in the operating discipline around it: plan, review, execute, capture lessons, repeat.

Listening to

Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works on repeat while I write. Long-form synthwave for builds.

Thinking about

The tension between contracts and discovery. Spec-first works when you know the problem. Most problems aren't known. I'm trying to articulate the cheapest version of "spec" that still earns its rigour.