Current project

Agentic utilities + craft experiments

Spending the bulk of my spare cycles building the helper-set Codex already sketched out (rubberduck syntax assistant, the local HUD, the resume-engine plumbing) while still carving out evenings for low-level C work, math notebooks, and that half-built narrative card game that’s purely for fun.

• Utility builds lean on agentic tooling for plumbing, CLI helpers, and glue code.
• Craft projects are intentionally manual—low-level demos, story-driven card rules, and anything that scratches the itch without feeling like work.

Current book

Effective C (2nd ed.)

Robert Seacord’s book is the read that keeps popping up in the C roadmap: the safety-first mindset and clean patterns keep me honest when I dip back into pointer-heavy systems or Rapido-style tools.

• The chapter on ownership and lifetime reasoning feels like a checklist when I’m writing new allocator-style helpers.
• It’s as much a reference as a ritual—flip to the section that matches whatever the debugger is shouting about that week.

Latest listen

Knocked Loose feat. Denzel Curry - Hive Mind

Knocked Loose, a Kentucky hardcore rock band, tornado kick into 2026 with a ferocious collab with Denzel Curry, one of my favorite rappers.

Update this summary with the exact song or album that hits differently next.

Learning thread

C++, from the ground up.

You can hear it in the blog: I’m forcing a split between utility projects that Codex and tools do for me, and the stubbornly manual side (game experiments, assembly puzzles, math notebooks) that stays slow and intentional.

• I want to get back into the weeds, and stay there.
• I want to learn the systems of modern software development by hand and be able to use them by myself.
• The plan is to be less rigid about the use of AI programming aids going forward, though (re: Rubberduck)