📍 Chicago | Software Engineer at 
Chicago-based agentic engineer building free, open source, decentralized tools across AI, Bitcoin, and the web.
I care about software that expands freedom, reduces dependence on closed systems, and helps push the world toward more liberty and prosperity.
A free, open source, version-controlled link-in-bio platform for people who want to own and customize their online presence.
A research-driven registry tracking where AI, open source, Bitcoin-native coordination, and distributed manufacturing can break overpriced corporate moats.
An open Bitcoin mining experiment that lets anyone play around with real mining, inspect the proof, and learn how Bitcoin mining works using their own computer's CPU or GPU. It offers a hands-on way to understand where consumer and home mining fit in a more open future, including the astronomically low but real chance of actually winning a block.
Repo · Browser preview · Windows releases
My independently maintained fork of Project Midas, bringing modern aiming, movement, and HUD options to the GoldenEye 007 PC port. Features include aim down sights, sprinting, sniper scope zoom, and improved combat feedback, with Windows builds and a browser preview. Requires your own GoldenEye 007 USA ROM.
These projects span publishing, research, Bitcoin, and games, connected by an interest in open software, user ownership, and building on the work of others.
A headless Bitcoin node and wallet implementation in Rust, built around Bitcoin Knots parity for the in-scope consensus, validation, chainstate, mempool, networking, wallet, RPC, CLI, and configuration surfaces.
The current headless v1 parity surfaces are ready for review and operator testing, but this is not yet for production funds or unattended mainnet operation.
Preview screenshot coming once the project has a stable UI or public dashboard worth showing.
I am interested in tools, protocols, and services that move power outward: toward users, builders, open networks, and smaller teams.
- Freedom is good.
- Open systems tend to outlast closed ones.
- AI keeps compressing expertise and raising the ceiling for small teams.
- Bitcoin makes more decentralized coordination possible.
- Software should expand human agency, not just lock people into another box.
I primarily build with GPT 6.1 Sol High in Codex Desktop or Opus 5.5 High in the Claude Desktop app. I use the two setups interchangeably.
Bright Builds Rules captures my evolving standards for code quality, architecture, and maintainability.
For my current setups, see my-tooling-opinions.
Some lines I keep coming back to:
"Stay hungry, stay foolish."
- Steve Jobs (1955-2011)
"Take chances, make mistakes, get messy!"
- Ms. Frizzle
"Life's a garden, dig it."
- Joe Dirt
"Life is not a serious journey with a final destination, but rather a dance or musical act meant to be enjoyed in the present."
- Paraphrase of Alan Watts (1915-1973)
"Don’t be sorry, be better,"
- Kratos, God of War (2018)
"No taxation without representation."
- Commonly attributed to James Otis Jr. (1725-1783)
"Be the change you want to see in the world."
- Commonly attributed to Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
"… with liberty and justice, for all"
- The Pledge of Allegiance of the United States
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969), Chance for Peace speech (1953)
"Deflation is the natural state of a free market. And only #Bitcoin can measure it."
- Jeff Booth
"The trouble with paper money is that it rewards the minority that can manipulate money and makes fools of the generation that has worked and saved."
- George Goodman, writing as Adam Smith, in Paper Money (1981)
"There is no second best."
- Michael Saylor
"Human knowledge belongs to the world."
- Milo Hoffman, Antitrust (2001)
"If I have seen further than others, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."
- Isaac Newton (1642-1727)
"Be curious. Read widely. Try new things. I think a lot of what people call intelligence just boils down to curiosity."
- Aaron Swartz (1986-2013)
"Keep asking yourself what the most important thing in the world you could be working on right now is, and if you're not working on it, why not?"
- Paraphrase of Lawrence Lessig summarizing Aaron Swartz in The Internet's Own Boy (2014)
"Free speech is the best error-correcting asset we have."
- Paraphrase of Sam Harris in Brave New World, "Sam Harris: Freedom of Speech" (2024)
"When you see a good move, look for a better one."
- Commonly attributed to Emanuel Lasker (1868-1941), former World Chess Champion
"We are made of star-stuff."
"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known."
"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence."
— Carl Sagan (1934–1996)
I write about Bitcoin, open systems, software, and the strange ways the future sneaks up on incumbents.
- Peter Schiff Accidentally Proves the Internet Is Worthless - A light satirical aftertaste on why lazy anti-Bitcoin arguments often collapse into anti-internet arguments.
- Substack - Notes, essays, and ideas in progress.
If you are building in AI, Bitcoin, open systems, developer tooling, or weird and disruptive internet projects, I would love to hear from you.
- OSS contributors welcome
- Podcast and speaking invites welcome
- Best inbound: send me a message on Primal
