What did I get up to in 2025? Well, lots of things. Some of the highlights include...
Profile
Currently: Preparing for fatherhood.
Focus: My work and my family.
Experience: 10+ years
Projects
Marginal - Adjust PDFs to print in US Letter format
A static site build with small web principles to add to the teachers tools suite including Mergeless and School Writing. This normalizes PDFs to a US Letter format allowing for a custom margin to be baked in for a marginally better printing experience.
Status: Live
Mergeless - A mail merge alternative for labels
A static site built with small web principles used to intuitively create labels with standardized label sheets, whether for inventory, the classroom, or the home.
Status: Live
School Writing - Worksheet Builder
A static site built with small web principles used to generate handwriting worksheets for anyone practicing penmanship.
Status: Live
Flavor Chronicles
Launching community-based recipe review — reviving my late mother's food blog by sharing her cookbook collection with friends and family and documenting their cooking experiences.
Status: 236 of 400 cookbooks distributed
Fables of the Twin Moons – Playtest 3
Tabletop RPG in development. Writing, layout, art, and system design.
Status: On Ice
Homelab & Infrastructure
Proxmox-powered virtual environment with Debian and Ubuntu Server VMs. Dockerized services, automated music ripping image, self-hosted music library, game hosting for friends and family.
Status: Ongoing - Actively Maintained
Certifications
Learning
- Clearing some of my slate for fatherly duties
- CompTIA Linux+
Reading
Cribsheet: A Data-Driven Guide to Better, More Relaxed Parenting, from Birth to Preschool
by Emily Oster
Progress: 30%
Listening
A Different Kind Of Human (Step II)
Aurora’s third studio album (pop/art‑pop/electropop), released June 7 2019
The Mountain
The newest, and ninth, studio album by virtual band Gorillaz. It feels like a return to form from some of their earlier works telling a full story of life and loss and love.
The Plot In You (MAPHRA Vocal Cover)
A deeply emotional cover of The Plot In You by Silence, done by MAPHRA.
Notes
December 30, 2025
2025 Retrospective - Things Worth Doing
July 22, 2025
Progress is progress
Sidequests are kind of how I got here, not what I'd call getting distracted.
July 10, 2025
Thinking over overthinking
I'm bad at doing things the easy when when the easy way was invented by technical people.