About

Hello there! I'm a programmer and writer.

I currently work as an iOS developer at Asana and have a degree in computer science & mathematics from the University of British Columbia. I live in San Francisco with my girlfriend Sherry and our small canine companion Rooibos.

Current Projects

• Spreppy
  • I'm in the (very) early stages of trying to build an iOS-assed iOS app for spaced repetition.
• A Prince of Foxes
  • After noodling around with various NaNoWriMo projects during the pandemic, I'm finally tackling a "real" novel that I hope to publish one day, which I'm tentatively calling A Prince of Foxes.
  • It's intended to be sociological epic fantasy in the vein of Game of Thrones or Dune.
  • The rough draft is currently 15,681 words out of an estimated ???.

Other Stuff

• I sometimes put unpolished short fiction up here. Two of my favorites are "The Bridge" and "The Factory".
• I try to read 52 books and watch 52 films per year. I collect some of my favorite quotes from them.
• I'm attempting to write up my favorite recipes, mostly for my own use.

Newsletter

Once upon a time I wrote a personal newsletter called Applied Dilettantery:

• Season 1 was primarily life updates and reviews of my media diet.
• Season 2 was short, stream-of-consciousness essays about ideas that grabbed my attention, released biweekly.
• Season 3 was a weekly series of short stories.
• Season 4 was a weekly dump of my favorite links of the week and some short essays.

I stopped writing it when I realized it wasn't encouraging me to write any more than I normally did. In fact, I came to view it as a hassle that got in the way of the "real" writing I wanted to do, not to mention the weekly cadence meant the average quality was quite poor.

I may revive the newsletter in the future, but it will likely look very different.

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This site is generated with the Publish static site generator, using a theme handwritten by me 🙂 It uses Vollkorn as the main font. It's served out of an S3 bucket behind Cloudflare's CDN, with the infrastructure managed by Terraform.

Copyright

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