I work on privacy-and-ethics respecting LLM runtimes in an effort to advance the state of assistive AI use for disabilities and cognitive assistance tech for brain trauma survivors. I do this partly because I really care about people, and partly because I'm disabled with a traumatic brain injury and have the skills to do it :)

Previously, I worked for Stack Overflow, Deno, Swimm and some other tech firms you might have heard of. I spent over 30 years as a systems programmer and servant leader in the industry. I'm retired now due to disablility, but still working avidly in free software.

I like that my work helps to show the good parts of AI, and I get to be critical of the state of the industry as a whole through constructively showing better ways through code and research.

Knowing that I'm making real progress toward bringing actual help to ordinary people currently struggling with daily tasks through open source is immensely rewarding. I love helping people find ways they can be more independent and self-sufficient using AI in measured, highly-structured, extremely creative ways.

I blog about AI, history, physics, software and culture if you're into (usually) light-hearted reading. If you use some of my software and just want to say thanks, please consider buying me a coffee; it motivates me to keep releasing stuff because others find it useful.

If you're looking for me on social media, I'm no longer there, due to the immmense cognitive load just being there demands. I miss the great people I could meet there, but the absence of it has been liberating.