The state of my life, in an occasionally updated nutshell. (Last updated December 5, 2025.)

Home

Amy and I continue to live with our two cats in our tiny co-op apartment in the Upper West Side neighborhood of Manhattan. This has been our home since 2021, and it suits us very well.

Work

In 2025 I wrote a handful of freelance articles for LWN.net and Linux Magazine. I found this fun and rewarding, and I hope to do more writing like it. I keep my portfolio up to date.

I have been otherwise "funemployed" since the summer of 2024, and have put more attention into seeking full-time work as of late 2025.

Amy continues to work at Columbia Law School as its new Head of Library Technology. In April 2024, she was elected to the board of the American Library Association's Core division.

Ongoing projects

After letting it run on autopilot for many years, I have resumed active development of BumpySkies in October 2025. This is a free turbulence forecaster for passenger flights over the U.S. that I first launched in 2016. I'm using this as an opportunity to re-engage with software engineering and public toolmaking after a long time away from the practice. I find the experience intensely interesting.

I co-administrate Masto.NYC, a Mastodon server for residents and businesses of the New York metropolitan area. The server is legally owned by Five Borough Fedi Project, a charitable nonprofit that I co-founded in 2024.

Earlier in 2025 I produced six more episodes of Venthuffer, an audio zine about the Steam Deck video game console. I hope to touch it again before the year's over. You can listen to it in any podcast app, or directly on the web.

I occassionally update a personal blog at Fogknife.com, and I update my public notebook ’Twas This now and again as well. Both have RSS feeds.

Other stuff

After attending NarraScope in Philadelphia in June 2025, I became inspired to rejoin the independent game-making community, something I was last deeply involved with way back when we lived in Boston. I haven't made any games yet, but I've been showing up regularly at game-community events in NYC anyway, and it feels pretty great.

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