Engineering Leader,Builder/Tinkerer,A.I. Nerd.

I enjoy building full stack software in many different languages, weird AI shit, consulting, and being a hockey dad.

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Recent Writing

April 6, 2026

The Lincoln Project: Building a Brain

I think the architecture everyone's using for AI agents is missing a property. Here's my attempt at adding it, what's working, what's broken, and why I think Elixir/OTP might be the right plumbing for artificial cognition.

February 10, 2026

My Most Over-Engineered Site to Date

I built enterprise infrastructure for a personal blog. A TanStack Start app on Cloudflare with D1, Vectorize, Workflows, and Claude writing my blog posts.

February 10, 2026

Yogan Hockey: A Love Letter to Elixir, LiveView, and the BEAM

Every hockey season, my family gathers around screens. I got tired of slow, stale sports apps. So I built a real-time NHL stats dashboard with AI predictions on Elixir.

Key Projects

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TanStack StartCloudflare WorkersD1

Level Up

AI job application assistant with scam detection, resume tailoring, and interview prep. Built by someone who has conducted 700+ interviews and knows what makes hiring managers immediately reject an application.

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ElixirOTPPhoenix LiveView

Lincoln Project

A continuously running cognitive substrate built on Elixir/OTP where each thought is a supervised process, beliefs have confidence and entrenchment, and attention parameters create cognitive style.

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TypeScriptMCPCloudflare Workers

Nexus MCP

MCP server giving AI assistants persistent memory, real-time library documentation, and stack-specific prompts. Your AI stops hallucinating API signatures and starts remembering your project conventions.

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ElixirPhoenix LiveViewMediaPipe

Puck Pro

Browser-based pose detection at 30fps analyzes hockey shots, Claude Vision reviews the footage, and a gamification layer keeps kids coming back. Born from refusing to pay $150/hour for a shooting coach.

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