February 20, 2026

I realized I hadn’t updated my /now page since I launched this version of my site, lol, so here’s what’s up with me:

Professional Focus

I got hired again, a few weeks after I published this site! I’m coming up on a year on the Web Presence & Platform team at Stripe, specifically on the events team — I’ve made pages like Stripe Tour, and the Usage-Based Billing page. Everyone I work with is extremely smart and capable, and there’s this really nice sense of craft expectation and accountability. We’re all trying to ship really strong results Because We Ought To.

Hobbies

Reading

I quit Instagram and Tiktok near the end of 2025, and I’m really making the most of having all the free time back. I feel like reading has almost perfectly slotted into the space I felt I was wasting on scrolling video apps like that. It’s such a joy and it feels like my brain’s chemical levels are starting to work much more naturally now that I’m not just constantly in a dopamine feast-or-famine haze. I feel more curious, and frankly like I have access to more of my thoughts. I don’t know if I can attribute that to the quitting of scrollers or the reading of books, but either way, we’re so back.

Motorcycles & The Metal Menace

Got my 1975 BMW R90 up over 50,000 miles towards the end of her 50th year of life — we crossed that mark climbing up over the pass at Echo Lake, nearly 11,000ft above sea level. This is the year I get my project R75 running again — she just needs some love, and like, a brand new electrical harness.

Writing

I actually didn’t make too many moves towards having a more prolific and useful writing practice. I’m not really improving cause I’m not really trying stuff, because I’m afraid to write trash, and I necessarily have to write trash to learn how to not do that anymore. I’m still publishing blog posts and some more involved essays on this site, as well as little vignettes on stillness.digital and strange.website.

Last year, me and my dear friend Red launched a page called strangersbyspring.com, which is a quiet and if-I-may-say-so beautiful art and writing project about travel and reflectance and escapism and romance, and I’ve really loved it as a continuing project. Everyone should ship a bunch of blogs.

Italian

I’ve had a big love of Italian culture and food and music and film for a long time, and visited a few times, and always been a tremendously bad speaker of the language. I’m enrolled in an intermediate speakers’ course with a really killer teacher these days — he says that my pronunciation is really strong, and when my conjugation and vocabulary are mentioned, he sort of shrugs and makes a face like he’s watching someone get their shoulder relocated.

Also

Over the past few months, I’ve fallen in love with someone very wonderful, and I finally got the courage and opportunity to tell them so. Every time I can make them laugh at something stupid I’ve said, lightning strikes at the old sun-warmed & lichenous stone of my heart, and as it cracks open, in its cataclysmic cleavings, it reveals an outpouring of verdant plant life — greens like you’ve never seen — and iridescently-shelled insects, and small, furtive, furry creatures after them. And this teeming world is of course my great secret, you understand, but as you and I are old friends, I’m glad to share it with you.

December 1, 2024

Professional Focus

I’ve really enjoyed taking the Summer off after my role was eliminated by YouTube last Spring, shaking loose some of the scale and rust of Big Tech Burnout, but I can feel the fires of ambition and drive lighting beneath me once more, and I’m looking to get back to work.

I’ve always been a front-of-the-front-end engineer & designer, and I still adore building for the web. I think it’d be fantastic to find another role where my passions for design, HTML, CSS, and accessibility can really supercharge an engineering team.

It’s been a few years since I’ve really been a CSS “expert”, and I’m thrilled to get back to a more junior mindset, steadfast once again in the pursuit of knowledge and mastery.

Hobbies

Motorcycles & The Metal Menace

Lately I’ve been spending a lot of time tending to motors. I have a few ’70s vintage German motorcycles, a more recent cafe racer project, and a soon-to-be-classic sports car, and all of them require constant attention. My garage is a nest, baring four gaping mechanical maws. I cannot satisfy their endless hunger, and I cannot turn my gaze from them, for fear of what they will do when unsupervised.

I read Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance in the Spring and Persig’s concepts of Quality and gumption really resonated with me. It felt like a framework and a path forward for “debugging” projects of all stripes, online or not.

Writing

I find a lot of peace and home in poetry and prose, and I’ve allowed my hubris to swell and my self-awareness to dwindle in just such a way that I’d like to pursue the craft. I publish my writing semi-frequently on twin blogs stillness.digital and strange.website, and I’ve also recently built a word processor project out of a Raspberry Pi (think FreeWrite but for a fraction of the cost and I can use my own keyboard).