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Generalist tech guy · motorcyclist · canoe tripper

"So what do you actually do?"
This is the long answer.

Generalist tech guy. A day job in tech, and the rest of the time: motorcycle and canoe films cut by code, 3D-printed parts, home automation that costs nothing a month, and whatever I am building with Claude Code this week.

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01Latest writing

All posts
  1. Zero-Subscription Smart Lighting: a C$19 Zigbee dimmer that talks to Google & Alexa2026-06-22 · 27 min
  2. Confluence's 'Export to Word' is a lie, so I wrote a Go tool strangers now file bugs against2026-01-13 · 12 min
  3. AI-102 Study Plan2025-05-19 · 3 min
  4. Why You See `this` in Terraform Modules — And Why You Should Use It Too2025-05-11 · 4 min

02Around here

Projects

Things I built because I wanted them to exist

A ride-video pipeline that cuts films from a camera, a GPS track and photos. Parametric 3D-printed parts through an OpenSCAD MCP server. A C$19 dimmer that talks to Google and Alexa for $0 a month. An open-source Confluence-to-Markdown CLI.

See the projects

Adventures

Motorcycle rides and canoe trips, filmed

4,633 km to the Cabot Trail and back in four days. 805 km around Algonquin with four bikes. Five days and 38 km by canoe in Killarney. Each one is a film, and the trip reports are coming.

Watch the films

Additional content

Longer pieces and reference notes

The working essays and reference pages that do not fit a dated post: who I am as a graph database, principles I keep coming back to, and the odd deep dive.

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03Elsewhere

The films live on YouTube at Aqueeb cool (the name is a prank by my younger son that I never undid). Code is on GitHub. The professional version of me is on LinkedIn and in the resume.