about
I manage reporting for a major hospitality operation. I've been doing it for over a decade. Before that, a few different roles in the same world: call center operations, data, and the seam between them.
The day job is enterprise reporting. I started building systems at home because the same problems show up in personal life, just smaller and quieter. Records nobody can find when someone needs them. Spreadsheets that exist in eleven versions across as many locations. A process that lives in one head and disappears the day that head goes on vacation.
So I build systems for the things that need to keep running. Health records, money, household maintenance, the stuff that compounds when you ignore it. Some of them sit on a Raspberry Pi in my office. Some run on a mini PC under a desk. None of them are clever. Most of them are boring on purpose.
Boring survives.
This site is where I write up the experience. Not the code. The decisions. What I tried first and why I threw it out. What broke in the evening at bedtime and what I changed so it would not break again.
And yes, I use a pseudonym on this site. The work is the same either way.