What I'm Doing Now

Last updated: 01/08/2026

Updated monthly. This is what I’m focused on in August 2026.

Day Job

The graph database work is still ticking along. I’m one of the developers on it and we’re working closely with our internal clients, so I’ll not say too much beyond that. The bigger push this month has been getting an app builder working inside our platform, which is the sort of problem I enjoy getting stuck into.

I’ve also been spending a good bit of time on evals for our AI framework, working out how you actually measure whether the models are doing what you think they’re doing. It’s fiddlier than it sounds, but if you can’t measure it you’re only guessing, and guessing doesn’t cut it.

Alongside that I’m still helping onboard internal teams and chipping away at technical debt. Not glamorous, but it’s the work that keeps a platform healthy.

After Hours

The house has got me down this month. The painters landed the first week of August and were meant to be finished by the end of it, then I found out on the Thursday that they’d not be back until Tuesday because they were off on a four day golfing weekend. So I’ve been stuck at my mum’s for the last week. All I wanted was to sit in my own house with my feet up, but it’s been a building site for four months now and that’s still not happening.

The stairs need sorted too. I wanted the carpet in as quickly as possible but I’m not off work until Friday, so that’s the whole thing pushed out two weeks from where I wanted it. And to top it all off, the car refused to start. It’s getting towed this week and it’ll not be cheap to fix. Honestly, I’m pretty fed up this month. I just want things back to normal, working from my own house, living out of my own kitchen and not camped out at my mum’s.

The garden is alright. It always gets a bit tired in August, it peaks and then fades quickly once the light starts to go from the day. That’s just the way of it.

On the development side, I’ve been working very hard on a new workflow tool called Thrawn. It’s a workflow that runs several models together, and hopefully it’ll start to bear fruit in the next while. It might not be the right shape for personal use, a daemon is probably a better fit for distributed work, but I’ll figure that out once I’ve used it in anger at work. Herdr has properly bedded in too. It’s where I’ve wanted my terminal workflow to be after all these years.