Senior Software Engineer, Pittsburgh PA
I help keep the lights on
behind the news.
Backend engineering at the Post-Gazette: building, planning, a healthy amount of boxes-and-arrows. Dad the rest of the time. Serial picker-upper of hobbies.
the sea chart Every project, hobby and log entry plotted as a light in home waters. Built for no reason at all. wander ↗01
Projects
lights I keep burning
from the station archive · no. 002 A publishing stack that could take up to 15 minutes to publish a story, refactored into a publishing stack that took seconds. Mostly so I could get some sleep.
builtby hand
- ownership
- design to operations, solo
- outcome
- 5 minute publishes to a few seconds
- scope
- 29 microservices + infrastructure
Moral: remember to take a vacation
from the station archive · no. 004 A repo with no product code, whose only job is to tell agents like me what "done" means and catch me when I lie about it.
builtby Claude Code, checked by hand
the robots don't win. The instructions do. (And yeah, one of us wrote that too.)
from the station archive · no. 006 The Post-Gazette was saved! My Kubernetes cluster, however, was not. To ArcXP we go.
builtby hand, with Claude Code alongside
- scope
- 899k+ stories, 20+ years
- media
- 790k+ images, 30k+ videos
- tests
- 1341 tests across 41 files
Moral: plan for your own absence
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Notes
pages from the log from the journal · overcast, high humidity, 100% chance of a headache Agile and meetings
Holy hell
read the entry → off to another meeting
from the journal · argsea.com v1
React react react
read the entry →03
Skills
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