What I'm focused on now

Building

Most of my product time goes into Nibble. The goal for the next stretch is a 1.0 that deserves the name: a smaller set of guarantees I am prepared to keep for years, an upgrade path people can trust without reading every changelog, and the first sites installed and run by people other than me. Its companion, Nibble CLI, is where much of the day-to-day experience lives — creating sites, running their tasks, and working on content from a terminal or an AI agent, always as the person who signed in.

Operating

Alongside my own work I run production systems: client platforms, and the infrastructure behind this site and my products. That means the unglamorous, essential work — patching and upgrades, backups that are tested by restoring them, monitoring that alerts on what matters, and deploys small enough to be boring. I’m particularly interested right now in making single-server deployments with Kamal as dependable as much larger setups, because for most applications one well-run machine is the right answer.

Shipping

• Sysman — alerts in the collector daemon are next, so a machine can tell you about a problem rather than waiting to be asked.
• Darwan — continuing the wallpaper manager and screensaver work, and keeping pace with the Wayland compositors it supports.
• Quarry and Insensical — point releases driven by daily use; the best feature requests come from the tool getting in my own way.

Learning

GPUI, the GPU-accelerated UI framework from the Zed editor, for native Linux software that feels instant; eBPF and BTF for observability that works across kernel versions; and, through rrussat, the practical details of applied cryptography — where the hard part is never the algorithm, but the state machine around it.

Not doing

Taking on new long-term commitments. I keep some room for focused engagements where engineering and infrastructure meet — get in touch if you have one in mind.