For as long as I can remember, I’ve been building - with wooden blocks as a toddler, Legos in elementary school (and perhaps a bit longer) and in wood, metal and plastic as my training progressed and my skills improved. In high-school, I discovered electronics and quickly grew to love embedded systems. And making a career out of what you love is an awesome way to earn a living.

Two-thousand years ago, Vitruvius penned the quote shown above - throughout my practice as an engineer, I’ve come to realize that well designed and implemented systems often have these three attributes. I’ve also learned that maintainability is an equally important facet of a product. Today’s embedded systems, such as a consumer grade router, can be upgraded but how many customers actually do?

Lately I’ve focused on producing software products that share these four traits. It’s estimated that the cost of creating a software product accounts for only 20% of the total cost over its lifetime. If maintenance accounts for the other 80%, creating maintainable software can have a huge ROI. The SOLID principles, Clean Code principles, DRY, and YAGNI - applied pragmatically instead of becoming a zealous dogma - help guide our system design to achieve these four architectural principles.

I’ve got a wide range of interests and experience that’s waiting to be put to use - what can I build for you?

• A Go implementation of the Hyper protocols.

• Digitizing and indexing my journal.

• A giant lazy-susan to organize an awkward storage space.

• A junk-rigged sampan sailing dinghy.

• Write-Once-Run-Anywhere with WebAssembly (WASM).

• Client GUIs with Fyne.

• HyperCore storage formats.

• 1984 by George Orwell

  Big Brother is Watching You

• The Voltage Effect by John A. List

  How to Make Good Ideas Great and Great Ideas Scale

• Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson (re-reading)