About

Hey there! I'm Thane, and I like making things. I also enjoy writing, which helps me clarify my thinking. Hopefully what I write helps or stimulates you in some meaningful way!

Why "hacks all the way down" though? Well, I have a hypothesis that also acts as, what I as an idealist feel is, a useful lens with which to look at reality. I've written a very brief summary in my first post on this site.

It’s all hacks. All the way down.
Something I’ve picked up on in my time building things (software, electronics, woodwork, etc.), is that we tend to, as far as possible, leverage the components and tools we do have (quite often non-ideal) to make useful and/or interesting things. We “hack” a few things together to make something