What I’m working on
What I build
Projects across four disciplines. Pick a category to explore.
Recent Activity
Replaced the raw JSON index at mcp.solarnorth.work/ with a focused HTML welcome page for humans who land on the agent subdomain by mistake. Every other path on the subdomain — /seeds, /{slug} for known pages, /.well-known/mcp.json — keeps returning JSON.
Added a quiet footer line on every page pointing at mcp.solarnorth.work. Belt-and-suspenders for HTML-scraping agents that strip head metadata before they see structured discovery hints.
Added a meta page on solarnorth.work that explains the dual-readable architecture pattern and how the site implements it. The page is itself dual-readable — same content available as JSON at mcp.solarnorth.work/build-notes — so the architecture is self-documenting.
SolarNorth shifted from a one-time demo to an ongoing sandbox for exploring dual-readable web surfaces. Project documentation, the standalone MCP server, and the pitch artifacts in /docs were rewritten in place to reflect this as the working mode going forward.
Codified the post-launch health-check pattern at armature/standards/post-launch-routines.md — prompt skeleton, per-stack CMS query recipes, connector matrix, gotchas — so the next build-and-handoff project gets the same tripwire for free.
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.