This site is the public home for my writing and project notes. The through-line is systems in practice: making intent explicit, instrumenting reality, and using feedback loops across software, infrastructure, AI work, open-source hardware, and field projects.
I write here in a personal capacity. The views are my own, and the site avoids private family logistics, confidential employer details, and material that belongs in private notes.
A First Reading Path
Start with these pieces if you want the shape of the site quickly.
- Context Engineering Evals Remind Me of Infrastructure Testing connects agent evaluation, infrastructure testing, and reliability habits.
- The Through-Line From Chef to Agentic AI traces the recurring pattern from infrastructure automation to context engineering.
- reef-pi as a Small Open Source Platform shows how a hobby controller became a maintainable public project.
- Planning Overlanding Trips Like Reliability Reviews applies reliability thinking to real-world route planning and field constraints.
Main Lanes
Engineering & AI covers production engineering, infrastructure automation, incident learning, agent evaluation, context engineering, and observability.
Open Source & Making covers reef-pi, Raspberry Pi automation, physical computing, documentation, and building public projects that other people can operate.
Field Notes covers outdoor planning, gardening, overlanding, aviation, astronomy, and other places where systems thinking meets changing physical conditions.
Learning & Life covers knowledge systems, GenAI workflows, teaching, reflection, and the operating model behind durable personal learning.
For the full archive, continue to all posts.