2026.04.28
On Patience & Garbage Collection
Waiting on a long-running query taught me what Augustine meant by restless hearts.
1 min
I love solving things —
in code, and in the slow work of becoming.
Engineer in Austin. This is a logbook of what I'm building, what I'm reading, and the faith that keeps me at the desk. Filed by kind and lens — pick a thread, or read it all together.
kind
lens
2026.04.14
A small Lisp, in a quiet week
Forty-eight hours, two hundred lines, a renewed affection for parentheses.
1 min
2026.04.02
The Rule of St. Benedict for on-call engineers
Fixed hours, fixed prayers, fixed pages. A liturgy of interruption.
1 min
2026.03.21
Reading Bonhoeffer at the airport
Cost and grace, between gates B14 and B22.
1 min
2026.03.09
Shipping a tracing layer at $work
What I learned about flame graphs and humility, in that order.
1 min
2026.02.27
A liturgy for Monday morning
For the cursor, the inbox, and the day ahead.
1 min