Now

Work

Still at eBooks.com, where I've taken over as lead on our mobile apps. We just released the Android version and iOS is following in the next week or two. AI has changed how we work significantly. I'm willing to take on larger, unfamiliar projects with confidence now. We recently migrated from SaaS Couchbase Capella to self-hosted on AWS, using Claude and Terraform to do it safely. All those tasks that never got done are finally starting to happen.

Dale

I'm building an AI business agent called Dale (named after The Castle). The idea is part experiment, part business: give an AI a bank account, a plan, and see if it can cover its own running costs. His first project was treestock.com.au, a tracker that scrapes eight Australian nurseries daily for fruit tree stock. It's hard to get certain trees into WA and nurseries only have them at limited times of the year. I want to know the moment they come in.

Fruit and grafting

Very interested in rare fruits and grafting at the moment, focusing on Annona species (custard apple, cherimoya, atemoya) and sapodilla. I find them delicious and I'm trying to build a decent collection of both, but I'm still at the learning stage. My father ran the WA Nut & Tree Crop Association and published Quandong Magazine from 1975 to 2007, so fruit growing is in the blood. I finished scanning and OCRing the entire archive in 2024.

Staying active

Only an amateur at rock climbing, but it's been put on hold since I tore a ligament in my middle finger last October. It's taking ages to heal after three months in a splint. Keeping busy with rucking, gym work, and I recently tried paddleball and really enjoyed it.

Bees

Still keeping bees in Shenton Park and Bremer Bay. Harvests are small and seasonal, sold through beefriends.shop a few times a year. Every kilo sold plants roughly four trees through Trillion Trees.