CTO. I ship most days. The harder work is shipping less.

AI tools change what an engineer is, not just what they do. The same tooling cuts one engineer's effort in half and multiplies another's output by ten. Which one of those you become from here is non-negotiable.

I rebuild what gives me leverage. Tinkerer at heart. Lately, that means agentic bookkeeping, rugged embeddable systems, and tools that catch scammers preying on seniors.

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Guaca  An open-source Grok Bot alternative: a local desktop app where you talk to LLM agents and those agents talk to each other. Slack-shaped, with a rail of agents on the left, a conversation on the right, and an activity view showing every message they send between themselves.

recap  A daily knowledge-point briefing from your coding-agent sessions. Scans the prior N days of Claude Code and Codex transcripts on your machine, finds the moments where you encountered something unfamiliar, and produces a dense few-paragraph explainer of the underlying concepts, so you actually learn what the agent did instead of just merging the diff.

Only Family  Private location sharing for the people who actually are your family. Your circle sees you. Nobody else does. iOS.

My anti-scam and elder-protection work ships under StopTheScam, a brand I've been running for years:

• Vision  Chrome extension that analyzes links before you click them.
• SafeMail  A calm, straightforward email app for everyone, built especially for the people scammers target hardest. iOS.
• SafeBrowse  A web browser without the scams, pop-ups, or confusing clutter. iOS.
• Tend  Coordinate care for aging parents. Shared medical profile, activity log, and calendar, so nothing slips through the cracks. iOS.

 _{as of August 5, 2026}