phases of focus

Eras

Marathons of focus. The thing I'm reading every book about, or building every weekend, or thinking about in the shower.

Now

The Chip Landscape

Read the encyclopedia on every company that actually makes the silicon — all 117 logos from one slide, in their original groupings. Ticks itself off as the reading log fills in.

since Sept 2026
One Hour

A series about where an hour actually goes. Each entry starts as a gratitude journal and spirals — a morning playlist becomes YouTube completionism becomes feed discovery becomes everything I didn't know about SQLite. Gratitude is the first.

since Jul 2026
Ubi

The reading end of the pipeline. An Elixir/Phoenix + ClickHouse feed reader with Deno-DSL custom feeds and sampling built in — where everything Carrion discovers actually gets read, queried, and sampled.

since May 2026
Carrion

Feed discovery as an obsession. An Elixir/Phoenix crawler that takes a pile of links and finds every RSS/Atom feed hiding behind them — normalizers for YouTube, GitHub, and the Fediverse included. Started as a Python script, became a 16-tab async TUI, then had to be ported to the BEAM to scale.

since Apr 2026