Twenty years of service. Still don't know what I want to be when I grow up. I write about code, faith, finance, and whatever I'm building this week.
Job boards are messy, so I built a dashboard to track the roles I care about, watch market churn, and give myself a clearer view of what comes next after the Army.
How I replaced a brittle Next.js blog pipeline with ERPNext (then Ghost), n8n, and a couple of webhooks.
Why American politics feels like choosing between buttered bread and glass shards
Starting with a bleak thermodynamics joke and ending with a Lutheran confession about meaning, creation, and why the human experience cannot be reduced to chemistry alone.
I built a simple budgeting tool for the same reason I built DebtPipe. Existing tools either overcomplicate the process or oversimplify it. I wanted something clear, structured, and free.
DebtPipe is a free, interactive debt snowball and avalanche calculator that supports unlimited debts, custom payments, and real-time payoff projections. Built because the tools I found either hid the details I cared about or limited how many debts I could add.
Algorithmic trading devlog documenting structural refactors to the QuantPipe Python forex backtesting framework, including unified CLI workflows, restored City Traders Imperium prop firm simulation logic, and initial CUDA GPU acceleration support.
In this devlog, I walk through adding unit interaction logic to Violence of Action, making it possible to click on a unit and pull up its info in a lower-third panel.
A first look at building my turn-based tactics game
At 42 and retiring from the Army, I reflect on decades of diverse jobs and why it’s okay to not know what you want to be when you grow up.
Discover why overreliance on AI tools like ChatGPT and Copilot can undermine critical thinking and self-regulated learning.
From Army pilot to DevOps engineer, this blog explores how switching to Neovim became a turning point in one developer