What I’m working on
What I build
Projects across four disciplines. Pick a category to explore.
Recent Activity
The lighting rulebook now picks its rules by style of presentation (song show, live band, DJ set, installation, theater, speech), with new research on DJ sets, experience rooms and musicals folded in: 130 checkable rules.
Crash recovery for live playback: kill the lighting process mid-song and the look holds while the song plays on, with the cues back in under half a second; kill the audio and the song resumes where it stopped.
The new lighting engine played its first song: Renegade's show, captured from QLC+ and played back with the audio and the lights on one clock, every section on time, with QLC+ closed.
ChurchScroll's admins can now find any ad by typing part of its headline, advertiser, listing or owner, with results narrowing as they type and 25 to a page. The search runs in the database (about 40 ms across 10,000 ads), and bulk approve or delete only ever acts on the ads on screen.
The words a light show is described in (breathe, stab, walk, rise and the rest) are now data: each is a vector on measurable axes, backed by a section that ran on the rig and the verdict it got, so a mood means the same thing every time.
Where This Is Heading
What's Cooking
Several things at once, as usual:
- AI systems and automation that take repetitive work off people's plates
- Websites and web apps that ship and do what they're supposed to
- Building out entertainment spaces with live sound and light systems
- There have been a bunch of tools that started as a personal experiment and ended up solving a real problem for a real client
- I've been playing in a brand-new space for me — ARGs — Stay tuned for more
On the surface, those don't have much in common. But the same instincts that make a live show run smoothly are the ones that make a software system hold together under pressure. The people I work with get the benefit of all of it, and it's a whole lot of fun.
The Endgame
Same pattern as always, just covering more ground.
Decades across sales training, military service, and enterprise technology will do that. The focus has shifted hard into AI development over the last couple of years, and it's been a hell of a ride so far.
People come back to work with me and bring friends because something got solved, something shipped, and they've got more problems worth solving.
The work itself:
- AI and automation has moved past experimentation — it's running for real clients, on real deadlines, giving people huge amounts of time back in their week
- The sound and lighting work is still a blast — years on stage before I ever stood behind a board means the people performing get someone who knows what it feels like from both sides
- My friends and clients who get things solved keep coming back with more challenges and bringing new friends along that often become new clients.
No master plan. But the pattern holds, the range keeps expanding, and something useful comes out the other side.