Outside of work

Most of what I do off the clock rhymes with what I do at work: grow something, build something, tune it, and pay attention to what it teaches me. The difference is that none of it has a deadline, and most of it ends with something you can eat, drink, hold, or throw.

In the garden

Gardening is the hobby that pushes back. Nothing else I do runs on a feedback loop measured in seasons, and the garden is completely indifferent to how badly I want it to hurry. It has taught me more about patience than any project retrospective. FILL What’s in the ground right now, or a favorite thing you grow. One concrete detail.

Photography, down to the print

I shoot, and then I print, and the print is the point. A photo on a screen is a draft. Making a physical print forces every decision to be final: the crop, the tones, the paper. It is the closest thing I have to shipping software, except I am the whole team.

Visual coming

The homelab

The home lab mentioned on the About page is a real corner of my house: servers and networking gear I run myself, on computers I built myself. It started as taking work infrastructure apart until I understood it, and it never stopped. It is also where most of my AI tinkering lives. FILL Optional: one specific thing the lab runs or a story from building it.

Homebrewing

Brewing is a process you design once and then obey. Sanitation, measurement, patience, honest notes about what went wrong. What I love most is that it is a marriage of art and the scientific method: it all boils down to a solid plan, but the results are often more than the sum of their parts. Every batch is a small postmortem you get to drink. FILL What’s fermenting or a style you keep coming back to.

Outside, throwing things at chains

When I am not making something, I am outside. Disc golf is the standing appointment, and hiking is the reset button. Austin is generous with both.