Engineering leader with 15 years of experience building web platforms, developer tooling, and systems that help teams move with clarity.
My current focus areas are distributed systems, developer experience, and agentic tooling. I like excellent dev tools, boring reliability, and software that makes the next person more capable.
My open-source tools live at @fairbearlab, my solo lab account:
- bear-app-rag - local-first semantic search (RAG) for Bear notes. On-device ONNX embeddings, read-only access to Bear's database, and retrieval for AI agents over MCP.
- descry - sink-agnostic, event-sourced HTTP uptime engine (Go, CloudEvents 1.0) with a two-layer, rebinding-resistant SSRF guard. Runs in production in my homelab.
- rolodex - merges and deduplicates vCard exports from iCloud and Google. Scored matching, union-find clustering, interactive TUI review.
- choosepaste - macOS menu bar utility that pastes clean Plain Text or Markdown from any copied HTML/RTF. Swift app, Go transform engine.
Also on this account:
- dotfiles - macOS setup scripts, shell config, and workstation preferences
- agentic-tools - Claude Code plugins and marketplace experiments
- Modern Software Engineering - Dave Farley
- Building a Second Brain - Tiago Forte
- A New Earth - Eckhart Tolle
- The Righteous Mind - Jonathan Haidt
- Nonviolent Communication - Rosenberg
- Smashing Magazine
- Hacker News
- TLDR