I'm launching Awaken, a non-profit gathering Christians in tech to build software for the kingdom, and taking on the role of president for a new TPUSA Communities San Francisco Bay Area chapter. Here's what led me here.
I was at the "Stop the Stop Nick Shirley Act" rally in Sacramento on Wednesday. What happened at the Capitol, what AB 2624 actually does, and why the rest of the country should pay attention.
Whatever you're going through, whatever confusion, valleys, or darkness you may be facing, Jesus loves you. He will meet you where you are and then transform you. Turn to Him. Repent and believe. That's it.
Block's new Nostr-based Slack alternative, a Droplet full of agents, and an Obsidian vault they all share. Open protocols might finally be useful in the age of agents.
I built it because I wanted a daily summary of the latest AI news sent to my podcast app, and then realized it was useful in summarizing a lot of other stuff too. Releasing it to see if anyone else thinks it's interesting.
I recently came across a list of events Iron.io was a part of in some way. It got me thinking about the before times, when San Francisco felt small and we were optimistic that we were building the future of the developer stack.
I've been thinking about things Claude Code could do on a schedule, so I tried to solve this problem and it worked nicely. I now have a private podcast feed of YouTube videos I'd like to listen to on the go.
I built a terminal AI agent in Java 25 to explore LangChain4j and modern Java features like sealed classes, pattern matching, and text blocks. It's named after my dog who also needs better training.
I wanted to write a blog post about some OpenCV stuff I did in Java using the Foreign Function & Memory API, but then realized, I didn't have a blog. I couldn't bare using some Javascript engine, so I built my own in Cursor. It's called Arc. This post is both about Arc, and the experience of building it in a few hours.
Iron.io was acquired by Xenon Ventures. Many of the team members are staying and will continue to grow the business. As for what's next, me, Travis, and some members of the Iron engineering team will be joining Oracle.