About

I'm a pilot, I've worked as a project manager, and I'm moving into tech. I got pretty frustrated with how things get done in corporate, and I've always been a nerd.

Most of it starts with something that annoyed me and wouldn't go away. My Garmin couldn't show my TickTick tasks without another subscription, so I wrote a watch app for it. I wanted my projects public and couldn't tell what personal stuff was still buried in their git history, so I wrote publishable to check. I use more than one AI subscription and kept running out on one while the others sat idle. That's where Crossfeed Orchestrator came from, and later Crossfeed Chat.

Publishing my work as open source changed how I work. I'm not afraid of building something just for fun anymore; before, it always felt like I was wasting time.

Working with AI agents taught me that most of the work is deciding exactly what to build and where it stops. Get that right and the agents do a lot of the rest. They're biased towards doing, so the thinking has to come first, and that part is mine.

Most of this now happens at Castor*, which I started with Edoardo Avenia. We publish the tools we build for ourselves and write about how people and machines work together, and where a person still adds something. We also live together, so every idea goes through the other one before it goes anywhere.

We're not building a startup yet, because we genuinely don't know where the value is, so exploring is the only honest path.

I studied physics with the Open University.

If any of this is useful to you, or you think I've got something wrong, come say hi on LinkedIn. The code is on GitHub.

HTML and CSS, with a little JavaScript for the colour switch, the search and the GitHub list. No tracking, no cookies, nothing to accept.

The way links draw their line, the asterisk that turns in beside them, the sun and moon and the search all come from Castor's site, which I designed.

The works page asks GitHub for my public repositories each time it loads, so that list keeps itself current. If GitHub doesn't answer, you see the copy written into the page.

The now page is Derek Sivers's idea: what I'm focused on at this point, rather than everything I've ever done.