Updated · what I'm up to this month
A snapshot of what has my attention right now. Not a résumé. If it looks stale, nudge me.
Building
- Just shipped
Finding 006: How do you steal $6 billion without a gun?
The Binance heist for people who don't own crypto, in five steps: the till, the laptop, fifty signed slips, twenty minutes, and a getaway that only half worked. Read the whole heist.
- Just shipped
Finding 005: Who killed Stack Overflow?
Every month of questions since 2008, four suspects and a verdict. The numbers are now a file anyone can download and check. Read the whole case.
- In progress
Every finding as a sixty-second film
Vertical, captions on, the numbers moving. The first one, Stack Overflow's collapse in sixty-seven seconds, is cut. The heist is next. All on all findings.
Reading
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Elon Musk
by Walter Isaacson
How one person runs rockets, cars and chaos at once. Taking notes, and his side.
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
by Douglas Adams
A reread, for balance. Mostly as a reminder not to panic.
Curious about
- Does being polite to an AI get you better answers?
- Why is a five-minute fix never five minutes?
- Is late-night energy real, or borrowed from tomorrow?
Learning
How to use Claude well
By building this site with it, one small change at a time. It writes, I review, we argue about commas.
Not doing
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Starting a podcastSomeone has to not have one.
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Waking up at 5amI thought about it. That was tiring enough.
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Building my own to-do appEvery developer makes one. I'm holding the line.
Last month's Now · September 2026
- Building:
- This page. It took a month to write down what I was doing that month.
- Reading:
- The terms and conditions. All of them. (No.)
- Curious about:
- Whether anyone ever opens these little arrows. Hi. You did.
- Learning:
- That a quick fix is never quick, and that I'll forget this by next month.
Into any of this too? Say hi.
Recommend a book, send a question, or tell me what you're building.