it's news to meherb caen's loyal royal, scaled up until the keys were seats. sit on one and a herb quote plays over the speakers. across its weekend on market street they played more than 20,000 times. built for the prototyping festival, 2015.the loyal royal, market streetthe installation·the royal badge·muni diaries·the festival, archivedgithub.com
code projects
explore immediatelysmall web experiment.an art card: a temple for emi, by robert wicklundvercel.app
claude usagemacos menu bar app showing claude code usage across its rate-limit windows, with reset countdowns.one hour, five hour, seven day, and opus windowsgithub.com
internet timea swatch internet time beat generator, in elixir.github.com
menu bar frequencies forevera tiny macos menu bar app that streams bff.fm, the station roll over easy airs on. click the cool rock for the current show, the track playing, album art and a play button. built on bff.fm’s developer platform, and polled only while you’re listening or looking. not an official bff.fm app.the dropdown: what’s on, what’s playinggithub.com
github of lifeconway's game of life, played out on my contribution graph. a cloudflare worker ticks the board every minute and rewrites the repo's history so the green squares match the live cells — the repo is deleted and recreated each tick, because that is the only way a cell goes back to grey. it reseeds at midnight, and whenever the board dies out.fifty-two weeks, one generation per minutegithub.com
wandrer routera route planner that sends you down streets you haven't covered yet. it takes the untraveled-roads export from wandrer.earth, matches it against the osm network, and builds loops that pick up as much new ground as possible — greedy, three edges of lookahead, and always holding back enough distance to get you home. exports gpx.san francisco, 33% done — green is run and ridden, red isn’tgithub.com
cat to cookiecutterupload a photo, get a 3d-printable cookie cutter. the wall follows the subject's silhouette; canny edges are dilated into raised ridges on the stamp, so the eyes and whiskers and stripes press into the dough.github.com
rusty spidera small web crawler in rust. stays inside one domain, pulls down the jpgs and gifs it finds along the way, and files them by format, domain and size.github.com
hass configmy home assistant config. an airvisual sensor watching the air over berkeley, google text-to-speech, and a random sensor that reports in protons. i love home assistant.github.com
work
pinterestsenior engineering manager. set the multi-year strategy for moving the client apis to graphql while owning two tier-1 services carrying all external traffic. cut projected api spend 40% year over year, and incident detection time and alert volume about 40% each. twenty-odd engineers and managers across the us, canada, and mexico.aws graviton case study·lmdb and memory management2023–present
twitterengineering manager for the service that assembles the conversation view — what you get every time you tap a tweet. about eight billion requests a day at ~99.99% uptime. shipped edit tweet, reply pinning, reply filtering and sorting, and the logged-out experience alongside product teams.2021–2023
abstractengineering manager, three teams in a year: half the org during a vp search, then backend platform and infrastructure, then the front end building notebooks on yjs and prosemirror. p1 bugs down about 90% in the first sixty days.2020–2021
recurlysix years, support engineer to engineering manager. built and scaled the developer experience and growth teams, and shipped api v3 and the client libraries below. before that: the netsuite integration, gaap revenue recognition, read-only api keys, and recurly's first ml application.ruby·python·java·node·.net·ios·android·integration examples2014–2020
vulumesoftware engineer, one of three, on a saas platform for tracking construction progress. photo uploads, onboarding, a realtime timeline, profiles.2013–2014
voice and terrestrial radio
a3 smart homevoiceover for a series of home security installation videos.youtube
energy 92.7voiced a spot for northern california bankruptcy lawyers on kngy, san francisco's dance station, now gone.the spot (mp3)kngy
[redacted] at bmirburning man information radio, from black rock city.94.5 fm
family connections centerschaired the board of directors. more than thirty interconnected programs for low-income and immigrant working families in the portola, excelsior, and visitacion valley — early childhood education through grandparent support groups, family literacy through intensive case management.2018–2026
economic development committee, el cerritoadvised the city council on economic development, the annual work plan, and the subcommittees drawing up plans for priority areas.2022–2024
