Hello, World

Twenty-five years of building software for other people and I’ve never managed to keep a personal site running. I’ve started plenty. None survived more than a few months. Classic cobbler’s children situation.

So what changed? Honestly, I just have more to say now than I used to. Fatherhood, going off-grid, getting deep into AI tooling — there’s enough rattling around in my head that writing some of it down feels useful.

What you’ll find here

Posts about what I’m building and what I’m figuring out along the way. Elixir and Phoenix (my current favorite tools), AI agents (the real kind, not the demo kind), off-grid life in the Yukon, and whatever else seems worth writing about.

No schedule. No strategy. I’ll write when I have something.

Why Phoenix?

A static site would’ve been simpler. But I wanted room to grow — add interactive pieces later, maybe some live dashboards. LiveView lets me do that without touching JavaScript, and building it myself means I’m not patching WordPress every other week.

Also, any excuse to write more Elixir.