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Now
updated 2026-10-02
A “now” page in the Derek Sivers tradition — what I’m focused on this month. Stale by design: if you’re reading this much past the date above, ping me for the current version.
// current focus
Applying and interviewing for AI automation, integration and applied-AI engineering roles — remote (U.S.), hybrid or on-site, open to relocation, full-time or contract. My current client is Blue Collar Tobacco: their online shop at bluecollartobacco.com is live, and I’m finishing its production build — admin order tools, an owner alert on every order, and online card payments. I also run 18 live sites (13 of my own, 5 for clients) on Next.js 16 / React 19 / TypeScript and keep extending the AI layer behind them.
ROC Web Tech is the web studio I founded to do this work. When I join a team, I stop taking new client projects and keep supporting the clients I already have.
// availability
Open to AI automation & applied-AI engineering roles · Remote (U.S.) · Hybrid or on-site · Open to relocation · Full-time or contract · Eastern Time · Available now
→ Get in touch// what I’m reading + learning
- Stripe Payment Links end-to-end — webhook HMAC verification with raw bodies, and why
process.env[key]never inlines in Next.js. - Local image generation — FLUX.2 klein on a single consumer GPU via ComfyUI, replacing paid API image calls.
- Multi-agent orchestration patterns — parallel agent fleets with adversarial verification over the MCP protocol.
// explicitly not doing
- Adding new stacks per side project.