My blog

What I’m reading Picking away at the Claude 4 system card. Don’t have a ton of experience with the new models yet but in general Claude has been my go-to for software. [Read More]

What I’m reading Finished book two of the Malazan Book of the Fallen series and on to book three. Loving it, truly epic fantasy and you can feel the roots in a long RPG campaign. There’s a depth of lore and mystery to the world that can be difficult to... [Read More]

What I’m playing Kaitlin, Ellie and I played the first few missions of Sunderfolk last night and I’m very impressed so far. Very clear inspiration from Gloomhaven, and the control-with-your-phone idea is brilliant. Excited to get further into this, and I hope we see more games in this vein. [Read More]

I’m thinking a lot about AI-assisted software development at work. I believe that it will (already is?) transform how software engineers build systems - I don’t think we’ll be out of a job, but I do think it’ll be a shift on the order of the transition from assembly code... [Read More]

What I’m watching A quick trip to the East coast for a wedding meant I had ~8 hours of movie watching, a rare occurrence: I spent the entire first flight and part of the second with the delightful double feature of A complete Unknown and No Direction Home. I did... [Read More]