More about me

The stuff that doesn't fit on a resume.

Color Perception

I took Keith Cirkel's JND (Just Noticeable Difference) test, which measures the smallest color change your eyes can detect. Most people score around 0.02 ΔE.

0.0049
ΔE — my score

The test called it "genuinely remarkable." I call it "why I notice when someone uses #333 instead of #2c2c2c." See my result.

Four Prompts to an Impossible Tesseract

I spent a Friday afternoon iterating with Google Gemini to generate a geometrically impossible tesseract. It took four attempts and increasingly precise structural feedback. This is where I got the inspiration for the header image on my CV.

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The Prairie

I live and work in Winnipeg, Manitoba. The footer skyline on my CV is an AI-generated homage to the view from my office: flat horizon, big sky, occasionally a coyote in the backyard.

Writing

Over 200 articles on sqlserverscience.com covering database performance, reliability engineering, security, and the intersection of AI and DBA work. I've been writing there since 2014.

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