The Road Ahead

So. Where did we leave off?

“Wayseeking, in code, in fiction, and on paths not yet found.”

It’s been too long and a lot has happened, so let’s get caught up.

First, housekeeping: some half-finished notes and essays that I wasn’t quite ready to publish in the last few weeks will be popping into the back catalog, dated as written. Much is already outdated, but that’s the nature of a fast moving world. Best to show my work regardless.

Second, the road ahead.

That genomics project? Done-ish, but already obsolete. Five years spent poking in my spare moments to build a SaaS that can now be built in a long afternoon by Sol or Mythos. The business side still needs a legally accountable human to stand under the regulatory paperwork, so I can’t say it’s even now a structure totally without value — but I don’t know as that’s the best use of the code or my time.

My intention was always to support health research. The business portion was always a means to that end, and that end might be better served now by just opening up what I have to open source. Refactoring the useful parts of an entire ecosystem for public use is a small project in its own right, so it won’t be immediate — but that’s the most likely path.

Now, speaking of obsolete plans — it’s impossible to both earn my keep doing things the traditional way and also give what’s coming the time it deserves. The last two years at my contracting dayjob have felt like churning out widgets while the factory was going over a cliff. I knew the days of human-written software were numbered and I had to get out, but taxes and grocery bills have a way of insisting upon themselves.

Hopefully I’ve saved enough, because it’s far past time to give this coming new world my full attention.

So — Third. What can you expect here?

Short term, a site revamp. Same look more or less, but with a custom engine underneath that lets me properly present some projects I’ve been working on.

Longer term, specialist-level writeups of those projects, hopefully some collaborations, and even some thinking out loud through fiction — because how else do we make sense of a coming world we can’t quite see? And throughout it all, lay-level essays to add a bit more context and fill in the gaps.

With that, it’s time to get back to work. My exploring feet are itchy.

New site by August 9!
Scratch that. Great progress, but let’s say August 16