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Mile High Fella · Colorado code hand · coffee · cigars · recovery
Just For Today Kilimanjaro at 66

Code with scars. Write with honesty. Stay clean one day at a time.

This is not a startup brochure and it sure as hell is not a template pretending to be a person.

I build useful web things, write what life and recovery have taught me the hard way, and try to keep my footing in a world increasingly run by polished nonsense. Strong coffee helps. A good cigar does not hurt.

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Useful code. Real perspective. No synthetic cheerleading.

Same site. Better bones. More personality. Less sleepy brochure energy.

Code

Useful web work that earns its keep

PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, accessibility, and practical systems built to do the job instead of merely looking impressive in a sales deck.

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Just For Today

Recovery is not a sidebar here

Clean time matters, practice matters, and the daily work of living awake matters. That belongs up front, not buried in some utility page.

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Part workshop, part journal, part mile-high lookout post.

This site is where the code, the writing, the recovery practice, the Colorado weather, and the rest of the human mess all live under one roof.

“Personal, but not messy. Warm, blunt, seasoned, and unmistakably mine.”

Tao Te Ching

☯ The Tao that can be spoken is not the eternal Tao ☯

The Tao Teh King, or The Tao and Its Characteristics
by Lao-Tse
Translated by James Legge

Book 1

2) The superior man ordinarily considers the left hand the most honourable
place, but in time of war the right hand. Those sharp weapons are
instruments of evil omen, and not the instruments of the superior
man;--he uses them only on the compulsion of necessity. Calm and repose
are what he prizes; victory (by force of arms) is to him undesirable.
To consider this desirable would be to delight in the slaughter of
men; and he who delights in the slaughter of men cannot get his will
in the kingdom.