What I'm working on right now
A snapshot of where my focus is this month. If you've read a /now page before, you know the drill: current, honest, and updated when things change.
Last updated: October 2026.
Getting the local side ready
Most of my hours go into websites for local businesses. The four templates are built (trades, restaurants, lodging and guides, shops and offices), and so are the demo sites, so someone can see one working instead of imagining it from a description. Lately it's been the less exciting part: pricing, the service agreement, invoicing. Next up is the first client site, which is where four templates turn into a process I've run end to end.
The tools
The tools still ship, just slower than they did in the spring. Wren, my local-first sticky-notes app, is in beta and runs as a web app, a Chrome extension, and a Windows desktop app, with Google Drive sync if you want your notes on your phone. Pinion.md is live at v1.6. UniStyle stays live and maintained. The full history is in the ship log.
Writing
There's one essay up so far, on why every tool I build is local-first. More when I have something worth saying.
The day job and the Northwoods
I still spend my days in DevOps: security, systems, the operational work that keeps things running. That's where a lot of the local-first, privacy-minded instinct in my tools comes from. All of it happens from Ashland, Wisconsin, on the south shore of Lake Superior.