I participate in projects, initiatives, and collaborations that focus on benevolent technology decisions, long-term thinking, and human-centered programming. Through intense research, deep contemplation, critical thinking, and effective problem-solving, I creatively explore the frameworks around which we build our systems of governance, culture, society, and science.
Apotheosis was a side podcast I started in order to review early Internet culture. It took the form of a monologue and had accompanying transcripts as blog posts. When the Codepunk podcast was put on hiatus, Apotheosis was rebranded Codepunk's Apotheosis to fill the gap.
From 2017 to 2020, I published a newsletter centered on artificial intelligence, machine learning, and chatbot development (with craft beer thrown in for good measure). Eventually, this newsletter was rebranded and folded into the Codepunk web site.
In collaboration with Bill Ahern, Codepunk was my longest running online venture, consisting of a blog, podcast, YouTube channel, and newsletter at its height. The blog covered practical applications of technology, tutorials, and longer form cultural and philosophical analysis (as it related to technology). My work on Codepunk eventually garnered me several years of the Microsoft MVP award and resulted in the publication of a book on chatbot development. Virtually all of the Codepunk articles I wrote are archived on hckr.fyi.
Through a Technical Fellowship with Generate Impact, I worked to establish the guardrails of quality software engineering and DevOps practices meant to serve the world of non-profits and benevolent businesses seeking to make an impact beyond quarterly returns and financial extraction.
With the 2016 Presidential transition in the United States, there was concern about changes in climate policy and the possibility of important climate information disappearing from public view. Guerilla archiving became a common word in the hacktivist lexicon, and I participated by building tools to archive 924 Nasa PMC research papers on climate change and the environment in February of 2017.