I design and build software that’s fast, useful, and worth looking at.
CS student at Indiana University, full-stack engineer at Rumor. I’ve been programming since before I had any business doing so — I care about speed, clean interfaces, and code I won’t hate in six months.
Building the platform behind Rumor — a private network connecting people to exclusive cultural events. Most of my time goes toward the host dashboard and mobile apps, everything from event creation and guest management to real-time analytics. 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. Early-stage startup, so I had my hands in everything from agent architecture to the product interface.
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. Small team, learned a lot about wearing different hats and shipping quickly.
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.
// an interlude
“The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.”Alan Kay
“Eh, maybe...” — Dominic Clerici
Three builds, run off the same press across one day — morning, midday, and late.
Edition 01 morning edition
The last 24 hours of tech news, compressed into a 10 minute read. Two decoupled AI pipelines research, triage, and write it; GitHub Actions runs the whole thing while I sleep.
Set in — Astro · TypeScript · OpenAI API · Tailwind · Vercel
writes itself every morning
Edition 02 midday edition
A new-tab extension for Chrome and Firefox with zero npm dependencies. Eleven feature modules, a reactive storage layer, and a recommendation engine that never lets data leave the browser.
Set in — TypeScript · esbuild · Chrome APIs · Firefox Add-ons
0 npm dependencies
Edition 03 late edition
The companion I wished I had when learning guitar. Place notes on an interactive fretboard and it explains the chord you found — the intervals, the theory, why it sounds the way it does.
Set in — TypeScript · Next.js · React Native · Prisma · PostgreSQL
design system: Neon Riff
Edition 01 morning edition the full story
The last 24 hours of tech news, compressed into a 10 minute read. Two decoupled AI pipelines research, triage, and write it; GitHub Actions runs the whole thing while I sleep.
Dispatch exists because I kept losing whole mornings to tab sprawl — four newsletters, two aggregators, and a feed that never ended. The brief I set myself was narrow: everything that mattered in tech in the last twenty-four hours, printed as one calm page, readable before the coffee goes cold.
Two decoupled pipelines run the press. The first is a researcher: it sweeps sources overnight, scores stories against each other, and throws most of them away. The second is a writer: it takes the surviving shortlist and sets it in plain language, with a hard budget of ten minutes of reading. Neither pipeline knows the other exists — they only share an editorial contract.
GitHub Actions is the night shift. It runs the whole edition while I sleep, and the only moving part I ever touch is reading the paper it leaves behind.
Set in — Astro · TypeScript · OpenAI API · Tailwind · Vercel
Edition 02 midday edition the full story
A new-tab extension for Chrome and Firefox with zero npm dependencies. Eleven feature modules, a reactive storage layer, and a recommendation engine that never lets data leave the browser.
Meridian is a protest against the modern new-tab page — the weather widgets, the sponsored links, the quiet phone-home. It ships with zero npm dependencies: every line that runs in the browser is a line I wrote and can read.
Under the hood it is eleven feature modules seated on a reactive storage layer. Each module owns its slice of state; the layer broadcasts changes and the page settles itself, no framework in the room.
The recommendation engine is the part I'm proudest of: it learns what you open and when, and never lets a byte of that leave the machine. Your habits stay yours.
Set in — TypeScript · esbuild · Chrome APIs · Firefox Add-ons
Edition 03 late edition the full story
The companion I wished I had when learning guitar. Place notes on an interactive fretboard and it explains the chord you found — the intervals, the theory, why it sounds the way it does.
Fuzzbox started with a chord I found by accident and couldn't name. Every tool I tried wanted me to already know the answer; I wanted one that would meet me at the fretboard.
Place notes on the interactive fretboard and Fuzzbox explains what you've built — the intervals, the theory, why it rings the way it does. It is the companion I wished I had in the first year of playing.
The whole thing wears a design system called Neon Riff — stage-light color on deep black, built to feel like the back room of a guitar shop after hours.
Set in — TypeScript · Next.js · React Native · Prisma · PostgreSQL
P.S. — The first language was a disaster. Everything since has been on purpose.