Now

What I'm shipping, reading, and thinking about

A /now page. A snapshot of current state — not a bio, not a feed, just what I care about this week.

Last updated · April 16, 2026

Shipping

  • Pinit v2: rebuilding the location-extraction pipeline on Modal workers. 3x faster, half the cost.
  • Dad's App: pediatrician dashboard (SaaS companion) going into beta this month.
  • X Reply: in-voice reply drafts, cleaning up the voice-matching corpus.

Writing

  • — An essay on parallel Claude Code sessions in practice (drafting now).
  • — A technical walkthrough of Pinit's Modal → Whisper → embeddings pipeline.

Reading

  • — Anthropic's engineering blog, specifically on agent patterns
  • — Patrick McKenzie on pricing and distribution
  • — Working through Designing Data-Intensive Applications (again)

Thinking about

  • — How to make solo-founder velocity legible to founding-engineer hiring panels.
  • — Whether the right next product is a developer tool or a consumer app. Leaning developer tool.
  • — Being a better father. Shipping and parenting have more in common than I expected.

Not doing

Contract work. Consulting gigs. Anything where the product doesn't matter to the people using it.