I've been busy! There's a big batch of improvements landing in PADD today. It touches pretty much every part of the app so I'm writing this post to walk y'all through it. First though, I want to give a disclaimer: I'm building this stuff primarily for myself (not you, sorry). I want a good way to quickly post to my own site and read the blogs I care about. PADD is my attempt at that. If it turns out to be useful to other people, that's great. If not? Well, then at least I have a reader I like...

Check out my Gardn page! It's a fun new website that let's you log in with your website! Very IndieWeb, lol. Each plant is unique based on your domain. I'm hoping to figure out how to give the plants more variety (and let users re-generate if they already signed up!), but who knows when lol. If you sign up (I can see a couple of you already!) please send me links to your Gardn page on your own websites!

Today I had a few hours to kill with my partner in the ER. She's okay, I promise! It wasn't the way we wanted to spend our Friday, but it gave me time to hack on something I've been toying with for a while. I give you: PADD. Yesterday I shared a screenshot of something else I'm making but the test UI was Star Trek themed. That was kinda based on this lol. Kinda. Padd is a Microsub Reader. The biggest thing this one does over others I've used is save my replies in-line. So I don't forget if I...

Since I'm now in my third week of employment with them I figured it was safe to announce: After 4+ years with Govalo I started a new job at Filevine! Honestly this was one of the longer job hunts of my career so far. I'm not sure if it's the market or that I was a bit more picky in what I applied for, but it started way back in September of last year (2025). I was mostly applying for staff level engineer roles and a small handful of manager roles. I hadn't considered Filevine but a friend who...

I’ve been wanting a dead‑simple way to publish small personal sites on Neocities without build tools, databases, or plugins. Today I’m sharing Neo‑CMS — a tiny flat‑file CMS that renders Markdown right in the browser. The whole idea is: just files. Drop Markdown into /content, list those files in content/index.json, and add a little YAML front matter for titles, menus, and slugs. That’s it. No build step. No dependencies. No CLI. If you can edit a text file and upload it to Neocities, you ca...