At my best, an engineer using the principles and lessons learned from a background designing embedded electronics, right alongside those from the design and development of mobile/web applications. At my worst, an amateur writer.Over two decades trying to design things that balance the durable, the doable and the enjoyable for the end user. Encrypted satellite audio transceivers, web-apps that still work without any internet, or programming microcontrollers to humanely and occasionally lock the food bowl so two house cats don't eat themselves into oblivion.