What I'm doing now

Building a little startup

Together with my partner, an Internal Family Systems therapist, we’re building Parts, a parts mapping tool for IFS therapists and their clients. This is my first foray into software for mental health professionals, which is something I hope to do more of down the line.

I’m excited and hopeful about building this project!

Learning Clojure

I’ve spent my career as an engineer working with Ruby on Rails and JavaScript, but I’ve been getting into Lisps over the last few years, and have been wanting to put them to use on a non-trivial project.

So Parts is being built using Clojure, a functional Lisp dialect running on the JVM (and compiling to JavaScript!). It’s been really fun learning a brand new programming paradigm and a brand new ecosystem, and while it has made progress slower than if I had used tech I’m already familiar with, I feel I am growing as an engineer in the process.

Parenting

N. is 2.5 years old, and she is an active, smart, happy child. When I re-read my 9 months of parenting post, I can’t help but smile at my old self, who seems to think he’s got it all figured out. Life with a child keeps changing, and keeps challenging us, the parents, in brand new ways every day. It can be exhausting for sure, but most of all: delightful.