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Life lately: Seasoned maple camp fires, ecstatic dance, and ancient grain pizza.
This has been a great winter in the PNW. A lot sunnier than usual, but still a good mix of rain, and now snow. I'm endlessly grateful to live closer to nature, to breathe in fresh air and commune with a variety of critters I find in my back yard strolls.
Last updated: February 2026
Most mornings start with coffee and fresh sourdough bread. I'm pretty habitual with my routines, and I tend to operate like the sun and the moon. My job requires that I attend lots of meetings and give lots of direction to teams of people who are largely on the east coast. Between meetings, or sometimes during meetings, I stroll around my yard and find frogs, salamanders, mushrooms and even owls from time to time.
Building
- Self-hosting w/ OpenBSD on casen.cloud
- Prototypes for a new kind of social app
- At work I'm building agentic AI platforms for large franchise businesses
Learning
- Learning Common Lisp in my spare time
- How safety is established in relationships
- Agentic AI patterns and limitations
- The balance point between hand-crafted html and over-powered ReactJS apps
