Hi, I’m Justin.
I’ve worked in tech since 2021. Most of my work involves taking customer problems, technical systems, and APIs and figuring out how to make all of it work together. A lot of what I’m experimenting with right now involves AI, which is why it shows up here so often.
Outside of work, I’ve trained Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu for more than eight years and I’m currently a two-stripe brown belt. Training has been a pretty constant part of my life, even as everything else around it has changed. I also lift, run, and spend a lot of time learning about health, fitness, and nutrition.
I read a lot, especially science fiction and fantasy. I keep a library in Obsidian with the books I’ve read, my ratings, and the occasional full review. That library eventually became one of the first things I added to this site.
My wife, Jennifer, and I have moved around quite a bit. At one point we put everything we owned into storage and spent about eight months living out of Airbnbs while traveling through British Columbia, Alaska, Vancouver Island, and Nevada. When we’re home, we like cooking, reading, and taking our husky, Silas, somewhere outside.
I’d wanted to start a blog for four or five years. Then one Thursday night I bought this domain, and by Friday the first version of the site was live.
Now I use it to write about what I’m working on and what I’m learning, whether that happens to be AI, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, fitness, a book, a recipe, or something else entirely.