Technology leadership, engineering teams, and whatever I'm building this week.
Head of Engineering at a scale-up in Australia. I spend my days on engineering roadmaps, architecture and ways of working — and my evenings building small things with AI to find out what it’s actually good at.
Built with AI
Small tools, one-pagers and half-finished ideas I build with AI in the gaps between other things. Shipped over polished; the point is to learn where these tools help and where they fall over.
A dictation keyboard for iPhone that never sends your voice anywhere. Tap the mic in any app and Parakeet transcribes it on the phone's Neural Engine, usually in under a tenth of a second.
A five-minute bodyweight move or stretch at quarter past every working hour. Install it to your phone's Home Screen and it nudges you with a push notification, rotates through squats, push-ups, planks and stretches, and keeps the same one for next time if you skip.
A go/no-go call for a beginner surfer on the Surf Coast. It scores the next week across Point Roadknight, Anglesea, Cosy Corner and Torquay Surf Beach, then picks the actual time windows worth paddling out in.
Notes & talks
Wispr-style dictation on a Mac, with the speech model and the cleanup model both running locally.
A dictation keyboard for my iPhone that runs Parakeet on the Neural Engine, built in an evening with Claude Code.
Drafted with AI assistance and reviewed by Dean.
Reference post: drafted with AI assistance and reviewed by Dean.
Resetting my communication ways of working in 2023