Now
What I'm working on right now. The /now page idea: tell people what you're focused on, in the present tense, and update it when the focus changes.
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Building Pedal Mania
A pixel-art cycling game for smart trainers: real roads, crits, velodromes, cyclocross, an island of its own and Mars. It is out on Mac, Windows, Linux and in beta on iPhone and iPad, with Apple TV, Android and a companion bike computer app on the way. Free to download at pedalmania.cc.
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Creating a new agentic browser
Something with capabilities not yet seen in the industry. Very early, very exciting, and I'll share more when there is something concrete to show.
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Reading Designing Data-Intensive Applications for the third time
Slowly. Chapter by chapter, with notes. The book gets better with age, the same way the author intended.
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Building a second brain in Obsidian
A local-first personal vault and an enterprise layer for the team — same PARA structure, Git-backed, with a small Go CLI for the gaps Obsidian doesn't cover.
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Helping a friend ship their first Go service
Pairing on a small project that does one thing well. The best way to learn a language is to write it with someone who reads it differently than you do.
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Trying to learn one new thing a week
And write about it. Mostly small things — a CLI flag I'd never used, a stdlib function I'd somehow missed, a paper I should have read years ago.
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Not taking on new work for a quarter
Saying no is the hardest engineering skill. I'm trying to be deliberate about it.