CTO and engineer. I spent the last couple of years building the technical function at Kwalee from the ground up, people first, and the twelve years before that running Applicita, the consultancy I founded in 2012 and closed in 2024.
What I care about is much the same in both: hire well, get the unglamorous things right, and then let the people you hired build things you couldn't have.
Mostly tooling for working with AI agents. The criteria I'd used for years to make decisions have mostly stopped holding, and I'd rather find out where the new ones are by building than by reading about it.
- omawrite is a fork of the Markdown editor Omarchy ships. 21 upstream pull requests reconciled, plus image paste and a D-Bus command line, so an agent can edit a file while it's open in front of me. The decisions log is the part worth reading.
- mcp-bamboohr-plus, docmost-mcp and cronometer-core are MCP servers, so agents can reach the systems I actually use rather than the ones that happen to have integrations.
A homelab I run properly rather than as a toy: Proxmox and a lot of LXC, single sign-on, monitoring, alerting, backups, all of it documented. It is where things get tried before I would ask anyone else to run them.
And an Oric Atmos, my first computer, which still gets the occasional Mandelbrot renderer written for it in BASIC and 6502.
Fix > Buy.