Lab · Lexington, VA · 2026

Build in public.
Atoms × bits.

I design hardware, games, and programs—and teach others to ship.

Pencil sketches for a conference badge — interaction designs in a field notebook
Field notebook · THOTCON 0xD badge sketches

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log Terminal chat: a weather question routed to a local tool, then a fun fact answered by a local 35B model

Models Will Be Commodities

3 min 560 words

Most of what people ask a model is about to run on hardware they already own. Here is what I think that…

log St. Louis Canyon. The kids remembered the sandstone.

RAGBRAI Postscript 2: Clean Slate

3 min 622 words

The last day at Starved Rock, and the last post of the series: a planning day with tea and the Full Focus…

log The view from the office this morning.

RAGBRAI Postscript: Starved Rock

3 min 597 words

Day fourteen of the RAGBRAI log: the anti-RAGBRAI day — sleeping in at Starved Rock, Sid Meier's memoir, Marc's first buffet, St.…

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