A terminal refresh
The site has been saying “builder of things that matter” for a while now. It just never showed any of the things. That’s fixed.
What’s new
The main addition is a /projects page. It’s a straightforward inventory grouped into three areas: PKI & Internet Infrastructure, AI Tooling, and Apps. No pitch deck copy, just what the projects are and links to code where it’s public.
Two projects
fibersight is a distributed network observatory. The core idea is a Go probe mesh running across five-plus cloud providers, taking continuous latency and routing measurements. The main feature is submarine cable identification: matching observed paths to known undersea cable routes. It’s got a CesiumJS globe for visualization. Not polished enough to call finished, but it runs and the data is real.
leaf-eater is a linter for Merkle Tree Certificates. MTC is an IETF proposal for batch certificate issuance: its Merkle-tree structure amortizes certificate size, which is what makes it attractive as post-quantum signatures and keys get large. It is algorithm-agnostic. The linter validates MTC structures against the spec, catches structural violations early in the toolchain. It’s Go, Apache 2.0, and it’s on GitHub at leafeater-pki/leaf-eater. Still pre-1.0 but the core rules are there and the test suite is honest.
These two sit at the intersection of where the internet’s certificate infrastructure is actually heading: CT logs, MTC, PQ crypto. That’s the domain I spend most of my time in at work (TPM, datacenter infrastructure at Anthropic, previously Google for eleven years). The side projects follow the same terrain.
The redesign
Solarized Dark is now the default. Light mode is still one click away in the top-right toggle (nothing removed, just flipped). The font is Inconsolata throughout, which is what I use in my terminal and editor anyway.
The prompt headings (pmcdade@org:~$ <command>) on the hero and projects page are a small thing, but they match how I actually think about navigating a system. The site is mine. It should look like mine.
The previous design was fine but neutral. This one has a point of view. I’m a USAF veteran who spent eleven years at Google across four different job ladders and now works on datacenter infrastructure. The tool that’s open most of the time is a terminal. The aesthetic fits.
What’s next
The projects page is a snapshot. Fibersight needs a real write-up. Leaf-eater is moving toward a proper release. There’s benchmarking work on Apple Silicon embedding performance that’s worth documenting once the methodology is tighter.
The site will get updated when there’s something worth saying, not on a schedule.