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Hello. I build things at the intersection of Rails and AI — agentic tooling, browser games, and whatever catches my curiosity.

I've been shipping software for over 20 years, with a focus on Ruby on Rails for the last decade-plus. I run Zerobearing, a Rails consulting practice, and I build open-source tools that make AI genuinely useful for developers — not just demo-ware.

Some things I've built: Super Zero, a Phaser-based browser game; Rails-AI, an agentic tooling framework for Rails; and The Feedback Agent, a CI/CD code review bot. You'll find those in Projects.

When I'm not at the keyboard, I fly airplanes. I'm an instrument-rated private pilot and an unabashed aviation geek.

This site is my corner of the internet — a place to write, share what I'm building, and think out loud about software and AI.

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