I design and build software that’s fast, useful, and worth looking at.
Full-stack engineer at Rumor. I’ve been programming since before I had any business doing so — most of what I know came from building things badly the first time.
Building the platform behind Rumor — a private network connecting people to exclusive cultural events. Most of my time goes to the host dashboard and the mobile apps: event creation, guest management, and the analytics that sit on top of both. Small team, so I touch most of the stack, from the database layer up to what users see on their phones.
First engineer at an AI research lab building autonomous agents that model human behavior. I helped build Persona, a product that creates AI-powered social profiles — digital twins that grow audiences and predict how communities will respond before a campaign launches. Tiny team at the time, so I'd be deep in agent architecture one week and building the product UI the next.
Helped overhaul the company website — better design, tighter SEO, load times dropped about 40%. Also built internal tools for tracking sponsorship metrics and Twitch creator stats, which gave management real numbers instead of gut feelings. First job where I shipped things real people used, which changes how carefully you write everything after.
Got me my first car at 16 — a '93 Miata with 220k miles on it. I still think about that car more than I probably should.
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“The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.”Alan Kay
“Eh, maybe...” — Dominic Clerici
The last 24 hours of tech news in a 10 minute read. One AI pipeline finds and ranks the stories, a second one writes them up, and GitHub Actions runs the whole thing overnight.
Set in — Astro · TypeScript · OpenAI API · Tailwind · Vercel
writes itself every morning
A new-tab extension for Chrome and Firefox, built with zero npm dependencies. Eleven feature modules sitting on a reactive storage layer, plus a recommendation engine that keeps everything on your machine.
Set in — TypeScript · esbuild · Chrome APIs · Firefox Add-ons
0 npm dependencies
A chord finder that works backwards. Put notes on an interactive fretboard and it works out what you've found, then explains the intervals and the theory behind why it sounds like that.
Set in — TypeScript · Next.js · React Native · Prisma · PostgreSQL
design system: Neon Riff
The last 24 hours of tech news in a 10 minute read. One AI pipeline finds and ranks the stories, a second one writes them up, and GitHub Actions runs the whole thing overnight.
I was reading four newsletters and two aggregators every morning and still felt behind on everything. Dispatch is what I built instead: one page, everything from the last 24 hours in tech that's actually worth knowing, about ten minutes to get through.
It runs as two separate pipelines. The first goes out overnight, pulls from a long list of sources, and scores stories against each other — most of them get cut. The second takes what survives and writes it up in plain English. They never talk to each other; the researcher drops a shortlist where the writer expects to find one.
GitHub Actions runs it on a schedule, so the edition is sitting there when I wake up. I haven't had to touch it in months, which is the part I'm happiest about.
Set in — Astro · TypeScript · OpenAI API · Tailwind · Vercel
A new-tab extension for Chrome and Firefox, built with zero npm dependencies. Eleven feature modules sitting on a reactive storage layer, plus a recommendation engine that keeps everything on your machine.
Every new-tab extension I tried wanted to show me the weather, a sponsored link, and — going by the network tab — a bit of my browsing history. Meridian is the one I wanted instead. It ships with zero npm dependencies, so every line running in your browser is one I wrote.
There are eleven feature modules sitting on a small reactive storage layer. Each module owns its own slice of state and the layer tells the others when it changes. No framework, mostly because I wanted to find out whether I could get away without one.
The recommendation engine learns which sites you open and when, and does all of it locally — nothing gets sent anywhere. That was the whole reason I built it, and it's the piece I'd show someone first.
Set in — TypeScript · esbuild · Chrome APIs · Firefox Add-ons
A chord finder that works backwards. Put notes on an interactive fretboard and it works out what you've found, then explains the intervals and the theory behind why it sounds like that.
I found a chord by accident, liked it, and had no idea what it was called. Every tool I looked at assumed I already knew the answer — you type in a chord name and it draws you the shape. I needed it the other way round.
So Fuzzbox works backwards. Put notes on the fretboard and it tells you what you've made and why it sounds like that. It's the thing I could have used in my first year of playing, when I was mostly guessing.
It runs on a design system I put together called Neon Riff: bright color on near-black, which is roughly what a guitar pedal looks like.
Set in — TypeScript · Next.js · React Native · Prisma · PostgreSQL
