What I Build
When I'm Not
Building Infra

Not just 'I own a printer.' Running a production fab shop (Fabricode) with institutional clients changes what you care about: throughput, first-layer consistency, failure modes at 2am when a client delivery is tomorrow.

Deep in G-code. Custom slicer profiles. Klipper firmware tuning. Pellet-fed industrial machines. The gap between a hobbyist print and a client-ready part is calibration, material science, and a lot of patience.

Started with artifact scanning for cultural preservation. The goal: capture geometry precisely enough that what gets scanned can outlast the original object. That constraint forces rigor — you can't guess, and you can't go back.

Pipeline: multi-angle DSLR or phone capture → RealityCapture for processing → Unreal Engine 5 for visualization. The interesting part is mesh cleanup and making the output useful beyond just geometry: context, metadata, presentation.

OpenSCAD for anything that needs to be reproduced reliably. Parameters over geometry: change a number, get a different object. No 'I eyeballed it' in production parts. Same philosophy as infrastructure — declarative beats imperative.

Fusion 360 for more complex mechanical assemblies where parametric scripting alone isn't enough. The muscle is identical to what matters in DevOps: design for reproducibility, not just for this one instance.

Film production certificate from SAE Institute. The technical side: lighting, composition, color grading, audio sync. Not just knowing what looks good but why — and how to reproduce it.

Not a current focus, but the sensibility shows up everywhere: how I write documentation someone else has to read at 3am, how I think about what a runbook user actually experiences, why CV design matters.

The productive hours start when most people have gone to bed. No meetings, no interruptions, no notifications — just the problem and the tools. That is when the homelab gets extended, when hard debugging happens, when things get built properly instead of quickly.

Not a habit to fix. A working style that has produced the homelab, the IaC repo, the fabrication business, and everything else on this site.