Chaotic Good Computing

About Me

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https://blog.chaoticgood.computer/contact

If I’m going to claim that this site is writing by humans, for humans, you probably want some proof, huh?

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Hi! My name is Spencer!

I’m a resident of Boston, Massachusetts, USA. I like to make cool things, especially when those things help other people make cool things, too!

During my dayjob, I work as an AI Harness and Developer Experience Engineer at the Dallas and Washington D.C.-based NWYC, helping folks connect with and understand their elected representatives.

The rest of the time, I’m typically:

  • Café-hopping, where I drink a copious amount of drip coffee and read1
  • Fiddling away at projects, either digital (programming) or physical (music and leatherwork)
  • Being gaslit by Stanley and Abby, my two terrible cats

If you need to get in contact with me, my personal Bluesky account or on LinkedIn are where I’m most available!

Footnotes

  1. read = people-watch ↩

  • #dayjob

    As part of my daily gardening, I write brief notes about tasks to get done at my day job. The vast majority of these notes will be private, except when taking…

  • #engineering

    My personal projects and professional focus has been primarily in software engineering. Being able to make things that help people, including myself, accomplish…

  • #projects

    I’m a person who likes to package up my work and slap a bow on it, so a lot of what I do will be framed as projects. Some of these may be literal repositories…

  • Privacy Policy

    — When it comes to collecting data, there's a fine line between making a good site and making an invasive product. To make this site more useful, I want to collect enough data to improve, but never enough to undermine anybody's privacy.

  • Ants in the Neighborhood

    — Is Jane Street run by soccer-loving ants? Inconclusive. We *can* conclude that they're fans of Markov Chains, though — an invaluable tool for understanding complex data structures.

  • AI Policy

    — I may not have any control about how AI affects me, but I can at least make a policy for how I use it.

  • What *are* Supply Chains, Anyway?

    — A first foray into network visualization: messy graphs, abject terror. Early data viz experiments searching for supply loops. Bad graphs; interesting questions.

  • #dayjob

    As part of my daily gardening, I write brief notes about tasks to get done at my day job. The vast majority of these notes will be private, except when taking…

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