I’m a retired software engineer and cybersecurity professional based in the San Francisco Bay Area. After decades of building systems and breaking into them (legally), I now spend my time writing novels, composing songs, and building interesting things.
I believe in shipping over perfection, learning in public, and the power of compounding creative work. This site is my home on the internet — a place where I share my books, my music, and whatever I’m currently building.
ChatGPT for Writers Cheat Sheet
A focused 2-page guide with the most useful ChatGPT prompts for writers. Includes prompts for:
- Brainstorming plot ideas
- Developing characters
- Overcoming writer’s block
- Editing and revision
- Research and fact-checking
LLM Workbench
A self-hosted workbench for running complex LLM orchestrations. Like Perplexity but with multiple providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, DeepSeek, Groq) using your own API keys.
Features
- Multi-provider support
- Workflow orchestration
- Novel authoring pipeline
- Idea generation system
Built with Node.js, Express, and plain HTML/CSS/JS. No frameworks, easy to extend.
Song Title Here
Story behind this song, what inspired it, when you wrote it, etc.
The Echo Chamber
When a disgraced quantum physicist discovers that every act of time travel doesn’t change the past but creates a conscious copy of the traveler who must live out the abandoned timeline, he realizes that the shadowy organization funding his research has been manufacturing disposable people for decades—and he himself may be one of them.
Dark Matter meets The Bourne Identity with the philosophical weight of Solaris.
What readers are saying
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AI for Developers Cheat Sheet
A focused guide for developers who want to get more out of AI assistants. Covers:
- Debugging strategies
- Code refactoring prompts
- Test generation
- Documentation writing
- Code review assistance
Book Title Here
Full description and details about this book go here. You can include:
- What it’s about
- Who it’s for
- Any awards or recognition
- Reader reviews
Explore Lamorinda
A comprehensive guide to the Lamorinda area, covering restaurants, trails, activities, schools, and real estate.
Built with Hugo and deployed on Cloudflare Pages. Features daily automated content freshness updates.
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