Car Compass
iOSAn iOS app that shows your speed and direction of travel. Built for a glance, not a squint — large type, a real compass, nothing you don't need while moving.
I build software that does
one thing well.
Forty years of shipping behind me — from FORTRAN and COBOL through the client-server years and the web, to LLM-native tools. Still writing code every day.
Selected work
Alchemist
LLM toolsTakes a rough idea and turns it into a working application. A small experiment in using large language models as a build tool rather than a chat partner.
About
I started writing code on FORTRAN and COBOL and have worked in most of what came after. For much of my career I led web strategy and engineering teams — most recently as Senior Director of Web Strategy at NETSCOUT, and earlier as co-founder and CTO of Photo Mambo.
These days I build small, focused tools of my own: an aircraft tracker that watches the sky visible from my desk, a virtual chalice for the Unitarian Universalists of Rossmoor. I also look after the Rossmoor UU website as its volunteer webmaster.
Born in Memphis, raised in Alabama and Florida, in California since the early 1980s.
Contact
The fastest way to reach me is email. I answer everything that isn't a bot.