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What I'm up to

Inspired by the /now page movement. Short, regular updates.

May 22, 2026

Reading: storytelling, AI hardware, and money

On the nightstand right now: Storyworthy (Matthew Dicks) for sharper personal storytelling, The Thinking Machine (Stephen Witt) on how Nvidia became the picks-and-shovels of the AI boom, and The Wealth Ladder (Nick Maggiulli) for a saner mental model of money. Full reading list

May 18, 2026

STRIDE threat-modelling agent

Prototyping an agent that runs STRIDE-style security reviews against design docs and PRs — surfacing spoofing, tampering, info-disclosure and elevation-of-privilege risks early, so threat modelling stops being a one-off workshop and becomes a continuous loop.

May 10, 2026

Rust + secure-by-default

Picking up Rust in earnest and writing down the guardrails — rate limits, access control, deployment checks — that make secure-by-default the path of least resistance. Memory safety as a feature, not a hope.

May 1, 2026

Building this site

Spent the weekend wiring up live pulls from my library account and Spotify so the books and podcast pages stay fresh without me touching them.

April 15, 2026

Reading more nonfiction

Trying to balance my reading diet — more behavioural economics and biography, less pure tech.

March 30, 2026

Long walks + podcasts

Got back into long walks. Working through a backlog of long-form interviews on the way.