What I'm doing now

Updated February 5, 2026

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Work

I’m currently splitting time betwen Remote Ham Radio and TRMNL.

At RHR, we have been working hard supporting the Desecho Island DXpedition. Over 50,000 contacts have been made from the remotely-controlled station on the uninhabited island. It has solar power, Starlink, and two amateur radio stations with radios and antennas. There’s even a realtime stream of contacts being made.

At TRMNL we’re busy preparing for the launch of the bigger, badder, more capable TRMNL X.

Programming

With the assist from Claude, I put together Stupidly-Simple Environments (SSE), a tool for managing secret environment variables from development to production.

Now that Kamal supports local container registries, that was the final motivation I needed to unify my apps with a single deployment strategy. Ruby, Elixir, Go, static sites… they’re all Dockerized now. This reduces a ton of friction for iterating on these applications, especially since they’re revisited very infrequently. And they all use SSE now.

Claude continues to be a huge boon for building and refactoring small, personal projects. For example, it rewrote a basic Ruby Sinatra API into a standalone Go binary, reducing the Docker image from 90 MB to 9 MB, and it’s blazing-fast.

Vintage Tech

I’m in the process of restoring a Macintosh Classic II. It has been fully recapped and it boots up and functions well. The original hard drive even works. There is one remaining problem, an issue with the audio that I am trying to track down.

Media and Games

We’re really enjoying the nerd trivia game show Um, Actually.

Deep Rock Galactic is our go-to chill co-op game right now.

R.I.P. Bucky

We had to say goodbye to our cat Bucky after 13 years. Adopted as a stray named Cassanova, he traveled with us across the country, through many homes, jobs, ups, and downs. He was – and will always be – the goodest boy.