§ NOW · MONTHLY DISPATCH · APR 17 · 2026

What I'm focused on, right now.

A monthly snapshot in the nownownow.com tradition. Less about credentials, more about what actually has my attention this month.

4 ACTIVE REPOS

2 TELESCOPE BUILDS

38 CLEAR NIGHTS YTD

7 BLOG POSTS

§ 01 · SHIPPING

On the workbench

The things getting most of my keystrokes and bench time right now.

GO · OPEN SOURCE PRIMARY

AI daemon suite

Four Go daemons that run locally alongside your editor: scry (code intelligence), tome (database schema), lore (git history), and flume (HTTP traffic). All exposed as MCP servers. Actively maintained and used daily.

v0.9 milestone 72%

3D PRINT · CAD SIDE

Telescope v2 redesign

Second-generation 3D-printed astrograph for Sky High Visions. Rebuilding the focuser assembly and back plate for better tilt adjustment. First version already published on MakerWorld.

Prototype 2 40%

WORDS WRITING

Technical blog

Writing about the context layer, agent tooling patterns, and lessons from building MCP servers in Go. Recent posts on why code intelligence needs a daemon and how to ship local-first dev tools.

3 drafts in flight 55%

§ 02 · LEARNING

What I'm figuring out

Stuff I'm actively spending time understanding, not just bookmarking.

Tree-sitter grammar authoring
HANDS-ON

Scry needs custom grammars for edge cases in Go and TypeScript. Writing tree-sitter grammars from scratch is a different kind of parsing problem than I'm used to. Currently working through the official docs and reading the Go grammar source.
Optical design for fast astrographs
READING

Trying to understand field curvature and coma correction well enough to make informed decisions about my telescope's optical train. Working through Rutten and van Venrooij's "Telescope Optics" and running simulations in OSLO.
Laravel Reverb and real-time events
BUILDING

Setting up websocket broadcasting for a client project. Laravel Reverb replaced Pusher as the default driver, and I'm getting familiar with the deployment model and scaling characteristics.

§ 03 · READING

On the nightstand

Books I'm currently reading or just finished.

A City on Mars Weinersmith & Weinersmith

READING 2026

Sobering look at the legal, biological, and political problems with space settlement that nobody wants to talk about.

Designing Data-Intensive Applications Martin Kleppmann

RE-READ 2026

Third pass. Still the best systems book. Revisiting the stream processing chapters for daemon architecture patterns.

Telescope Optics Rutten & van Venrooij

REFERENCE 2026

Dense but essential. Using it to understand the optical tradeoffs in fast Newtonian astrographs.

The Art of Doing Science and Engineering Richard Hamming

FINISHED MAR 2026

Hamming's lectures on how to do work that matters. Practical, not motivational.

§ 04 · PHOTOGRAPHING

At the scope

Upcoming deep-sky targets and integration progress.

STATUS	TARGET	NOTES	INTEGRATION
ACTIVE	Cygnus Wall NGC 7000	Narrowband Ha/OIII from a Bortle 5 backyard. Framing the Wall section specifically.	14.2 HRS
NEXT	Horsehead Nebula B33	Waiting for Orion to come back around in autumn. Planning a widefield framing with the Flame.	0 HRS
NEXT	Rosette Nebula NGC 2244	HOO palette. Need a clear moonless window in late fall.	0 HRS
QUEUE	Elephant's Trunk IC 1396A	Big target, well-suited for the focal length. Hydrogen alpha first pass.	0 HRS
QUEUE	Veil Nebula NGC 6992	Eastern arc. Mosaic candidate if the tracking holds up.	0 HRS

§ 05 · LISTENING

April's seven tracks

What's been on repeat this month.

01
Motion Sickness Phoebe Bridgers
3:50
02
Nude Radiohead
4:15
03
re: stacks Bon Iver
6:41
04
Pink + White Frank Ocean
3:04
05
Impossible Soul Sufjan Stevens
25:34
06
Only Shallow My Bloody Valentine
4:17
07
Alison Slowdive
5:02

§ 06 · NOT DOING

A short list of refusals

Equally important.

Social media
Rewriting things that work
Kubernetes
Hot takes
Optimizing for followers
Enterprise SaaS side projects

LAST UPDATED

April 17, 2026

This page gets rewritten monthly. If something here is stale, that probably means I got busy with the things listed above.