What I am working on now.

A monthly snapshot of active engagements, what is in discovery, and what I am reading and learning. Updated by hand.

Engagements

Three things, no more.

Capacity is intentionally small. When one engagement ships, another moves up — the booking calendar never carries more than three concurrent.

BuildQ3 2026

Dealership ops

PDF-driven inventory pipeline + sales analytics surface for a used-car operator.

DiscoveryQ4 2026

Outdoor coaching

Pacing/coaching mobile app — scoping iOS shell + activity changelog architecture.

HandoffIn progress

Group payments

Bill-splitting platform — final documentation pass and in-house engineering knowledge transfer.

Reading

A Philosophy of Software Design
John Ousterhout
Re-read once a year. The "deep modules" chapter keeps shaping how I scope discovery deliverables.
The Pragmatic Programmer
Hunt & Thomas
Picked up the 20th-anniversary edition. Section on "tracer bullets" maps cleanly to two-week paid discovery.

Learning

Postgres query planning under read-replica skew
Edge case from the dealership build — long-tail explain plans on a 50M-row inventory table.
CSS view-transitions for native-feeling navigation
Auditing whether to ship them across the three sub-apps before Q3.
Server-Sent Events vs. WebSockets for low-rate dashboards
Trying to standardize on SSE for the next two engagements — simpler ops, fewer firewall fights.

Want to be the next entry on this page? Discovery slots open quarterly.