About Me

I'm a programmer and I'm ADHD as fuck. That's the short version. The long version is that I've spent 13 years building software across every layer of the stack and half the industries you can name — e-commerce, sports betting, telecoms, mass marketing — from frontend code to devops pipelines to sitting in the chief architect's chair at a startup. I've seen a lot of codebases. I've broken a lot of things in production. I've learned something from all of it.

But the job title isn't the interesting part. The interesting part is that my brain won't stay in one lane. Right now I'm deep into intentional communities — how people can live together more deliberately, more honestly, more humanely than the default scripts society hands us. I'm exploring polyamory and what it teaches about communication, boundaries, and the stories we tell ourselves about love. I'm reading too much philosophy and not enough fiction. And whenever the weather allows, I'm on the bike.

The bike

She's a Kawasaki Ninja 1000 SX in white, with OEM panniers. Her name is Skadi, after the Norse goddess of winter and mountains — because I bought her in the cold months, and I intend to take her to the Alps to show her the mountains she was named for.

Why this blog exists

My head is full of half-finished thoughts, rabbit holes, and connections between things that don't seem connected. This is where I lay them out and see if they hold up. Some posts will be technical. Some will be philosophical. Some will just be me trying to make sense of a world that doesn't always make sense. If any of that sounds like your kind of thing, stick around — there's always a kettle on.

Find me elsewhere

I'm on Instagram as @highwaycoder, mostly bikes and whatever else catches my eye. I also run a small Discord community for ADHDers — it's invitation-only for now, but if you'd like to join, drop me a line at chris@highwaycoder.com and tell me what you're about.