Build. Lead. + Teach.

Chased a firmware bug today that sat two layers below anything an app could see — and the only reason I caught it was that the makers had shipped a CLI and a Python API in addition to the app. Let tinkerers tinker.

Wired up a little robot today: a few lines of YAML, and now a machine I'll never see wakes up every morning, does the chore I'd otherwise forget, and goes back to sleep — no server of mine to babysit, no cron box to keep alive. That a free runner somewhere will quietly hold a schedule for me, forever, is the kind of small magic it's easy to stop noticing. I noticed.

The treadmill died, and instead of hauling it to the curb I had a multimeter and a hunch — and the hunch was right, one bulged capacitor giving itself away as a dead reading. Three things lined up there: the broken machine that needed me, the meter that turned a mystery into a measurement, and the professor years ago who taught me how to use one and how to think like the other. You don't always get to thank the person whose lesson saved your Saturday, but I know exactly whose it was.