The state of my life, in an occasionally updated nutshell. (Last updated August 12, 2026.)

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

I have been "funemployed" since leaving Google in the summer of 2024. I do a little freelance software engineering or technical writing now and then. Linux Magazine has published a few of my articles on tinkering with the Steam Deck, and on using generative AI tools like Claude Code.

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, where she continues to serve.

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.

Projects

After letting it run on autopilot for many years, I resumed active development of BumpySkies in October 2025, and I've kept at it since. This is a free turbulence forecaster for passenger flights over the U.S. that I first launched in 2016. It currently has around 15,000 monthly active users. The project, as well as the advent of generative AI-assisted coding tools, has inspired me to re-engage with software engineering and public toolmaking after a long time away from the practice.

Two conferences I attended in 2025, NarraScope and PAX Unplugged, rekindled my interest in narrative-driven games, and tabletop role-playing games in particular. Starting in 2026, I began running several indie TTRPGs with friends, including Mörk Borg and His Majesty the Worm. I have enjoyed the latter game so much that I developed my own online-play aid for it, a free web service called Crawlspace. I've so far only run adventures written by others, as much as I'd like to write my own.

I have resumed active development of Plerd, my own blogging platform-first released in 2014, and another previously long-dormant project. I post a few times per month to my personal blog, Fogknife, and I update my public notebook ’Twas This now and again as well. Both have RSS feeds.

Other interests

For the last few years I have a pursued a patchy but ongoing interest in learning more about music and how it's made—with a particular focus on electronic sounds, and a side-order of recorded narration. I cycle between teaching myself piano, narrating audiobooks, playing with synthesizers, and releasing podcasts. I've also been attending shows and concerts more often in the last couple of years than at any previous time in my life, probably.

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