What I'm Doing Now

Last updated: 01/11/2026

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

Day Job

I’ve moved on to the bug-athon. Alongside it I’m leading a major bit of work on RBAC (role-based access control, what you can do depends on your role) and GBAC (graph-based access control, what you can do depends on how you’re connected in the graph). I’m doing it with a few other engineers but leading the effort. I’m finding it exciting.

I’ve put a bit of time into my workflow for this so I can stay in the terminal. I still answer questions from colleagues and give good updates every so often on where we are with the work, but it’s all done inside the terminal and Herdr. It’s really sped my development time up.

The office is still annoying me, but what can I do about it? Just get on with it.

Thrawn is still being measured, but I’m stopping that this week. More on why below.

After Hours

The house is 99% there, well, apart from next year’s front room thing. The last carpet was set to go down at the end of October, but I woke up on the day and didn’t fancy having a stranger in the house on my day off. It’ll get done at the end of this month. I’ve just had enough of running about after people. It has been a long year coming.

Most of my spare time is going on prepping two talks: Integrate with Stripe via MCP at the Stripe Belfast launch on the 12th, and my talk at NIDC 2026 on the 21st. It’s taking up a fair bit of my time, which is why Thrawn’s measuring has to stop.

There’s Sightline and various other things on the go, but they’re small fry at the moment.