What I’m working on
What I build
Projects across four disciplines. Pick a category to explore.
Recent Activity
Ran a 148-agent adversarial research pass on presentation transitions — one refuter per claim, defaulting to 'folklore' wherever no primary source held up. Adopted seven craft rules, retired the widely-cited ten-minute attention span as unsupported, and rejected two of the research's own recommendations on project-specific grounds.
Dekker could only ingest a brand's colours and fonts, so every deck came out the same shape in different hues. Prototyped four hooks that let a design system's own textures and ornament reach the slide — enough to rebuild a reference design at roughly 90% fidelity using the hooks alone, with no hand-written CSS.
Shipped time-sensitive prayer requests and answered-prayer celebration to the prayer wall. Urgency decays after 48 hours by design — a flag that never expires ends up on everything, and then the wall can no longer surface the surgery starting in an hour.
Triaged a stakeholder's eight-system feature wishlist against the production database before ranking any of it, and found six of the eight already built and shipping. That reframed the request: not a feature gap but a discoverability problem, measured by the fact that the person closest to the product did not know the features existed.
Traced a CI code-review workflow that had been reporting green for two weeks while posting nothing but the word 'null'. Three bugs sat stacked, each concealing the next: a shell-injection flaw masked a dead API key, which in turn masked a response-parsing error that discarded reviews the API had already generated.
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.