A neon-lit diner at the edge of a misty evergreen forest at night

Personal site / emotional roadside attraction

Warm dispatches from the neon forest.

I make useful things with a strange little heartbeat: software, essays, songs, jokes with tiny fangs, and maps back to myself.

Equal parts diner coffee, haunted jukebox, field guide, and hopeful note found in a jacket pocket.

About

Tender systems, odd weather.

I like building things that help people feel more capable, less alone, and slightly more amused by the machinery of being alive.

Current frequency

Designing tools, writing essays, making music, and learning how to trust the quiet signal under the noise.

Operating principles

Be kind. Be specific. Keep a lantern nearby. Leave room for the joke and the feeling to both be true.

Projects

Things with knobs and souls.

A few editable placeholders for work that can be practical, poetic, or charmingly suspicious of false binaries.

Browser game

Between Two Lodges

A moody, original text adventure about coffee, woods, clues, dreams, and the kind of hallway that knows your name.

Play

Product / experiment

Signal in the Static

A small tool for turning messy notes into honest next steps, with room for uncertainty and excellent snacks.

Interactive fiction

Diner Oracle

A conversational story engine where every booth has a secret and the coffee knows a little too much.

Essay series

Soft Launch Into the Void

Field notes on making things, changing your mind, and remaining tender in highly optimized environments.

Arcade

Quarter-light favorites.

I would spend hours in arcades, following cabinet glow from one obsession to the next. I even skipped art class upstairs from my favorite childhood arcade in Plattsburgh, NY, because sometimes the real curriculum was vector beams, joysticks, and the sound of another coin dropping.

Writing

Essays from the booth by the window.

Notes on technology, identity, attention, grief, comedy, and the suspiciously heroic act of trying again tomorrow.

Music

Songs for fluorescent weather.

Synths, small rituals, late-night tenderness, and melodies that look directly at the void before asking whether it wants fries.

01

Nocturnal synths for cleaning the kitchen at midnight

02

Diner jukebox heartbreak with drum machines

03

Forest ambience, tape hiss, and small hopeful chords

Cats

Beverly and Lucinda from 2025 to current

Beverly and Lucinda are beloved tiny chaos professionals who chase ping pong balls, get in the bed with me, eat lots of Churu, and practice suspiciously meaningful eye contact.

Contact

Leave a message at the counter.

For collaborations, kind notes, strange ideas, playlists, and carefully scoped existential questions.