Coastal cliffs above the fog at Torrey Pines
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Southern California · 33.0° N, 117.3° W

Coastal perspective.
Desert grounding.

Hi, I'm Ross.

I'm a dad, beverage manager, creator and adventurer based in Southern California. Away from work, I'm usually on the sand, riding, golfing, or finding a trail. This site is a living record of the projects I'm pursuing, the places that keep me grounded, and what I'm learning along the way.

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01 / Field notes

Proof of
being there.

A geographic record of motion, weather, attention, and the ordinary places worth remembering.

Life at unspecified location
Life A morning ritual
Beach at La Jolla
Beach · La Jolla Morning Stroll
Life at unspecified location
Life
Golf at Garabito, Costa Rica
Golf · Garabito, Costa Rica Jungle Greens
Beach at Maui, Hi
Beach · Maui, Hi Sea Bliss
Trail at Hana, HI
Trail · Hana, HI Banyan Surrender
Trail at Joshua Tree, CA
Trail · Joshua Tree, CA
Trail at Redwood State Park, CA
Trail · Redwood State Park, CA Rooted
Golf at Sedona, AZ
Golf · Sedona, AZ Not Original
Trail at Antelope Canyon, UT
Trail · Antelope Canyon, UT Wind Swept
Trail at La Paz, MX
Trail · La Paz, MX
Golf at Kelowna, Canada
Golf · Kelowna, Canada A Journey North
Trail at Costa Rica
Trail · Costa Rica A Dream
Golf at Monterey, CA
Golf · Monterey, CA Poor Man’s Pebble
Moto at unspecified location
Moto Beautiful by Design
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Desert highway through Anza-Borrego at dusk

02 / Sandbox

Where ideas
get dirty.

Active ventures, early signals, and useful experiments. The unfinished work belongs here too.

SlateRides website
Active build

SlateRides Ecosystem

An independent media and maker ecosystem connecting EV news, customization, community creativity, and an emerging owner-to-owner exchange.

Explore the ecosystem →
Food Sex Alcohol founding edition website
Active build

Food Sex Alcohol (FSA)

An independent editorial journal about the meals, intimacy, and celebrations that make limited time feel well spent.

Enter the journal →
Chain Intelligence Portal website
Active build

Chain Database & Chain Intelligence Portal

A connected operating system that standardizes supplier programs, protects approved placements, and turns field activity into repeatable chain intelligence.

See what's emerging →
Dead Reckoning dashboard with a daily bearing and local weather overview
Active build

Dead Reckoning

A bespoke private system for capturing, understanding, and selectively publishing the evidence of a life well lived—without feeds, ads, or borrowed identity.

Trace the system →

03 / Build log

Progress,
unvarnished.

Shipped work, loose thinking, and the knots I haven't untied yet.

Thinking
Developing a gauntlet is a gauntlet… Make that make sense. AI Fun!
Thinking
Building out editorial dashboards connecting to supabase is like adding a skeleton to the flesh blob
Still stuck
Folders and agents and skills, oh my! Being simply confused is part of the process
Shipped
Dead Reckoning- Developing the daily direction and cadence of your life in 0s and 1s.
Thinking
When you realize you can have Claude Code and Codex work on the same project and you watch two of the biggest digital brains argue and complement each other: )
Thinking
I opened a project I abandoned a year ago and found real people waiting on me.
Thinking
Storyboard stopped arguing with itself and I moved forward with the design... Structure's locked, three real assets are in, two bugs were named and killed.
Shipped
Setups Supabase for database and photos for Dead Reckoning app
Still stuck
working on getting palm frond graphics incorporated for the background
Shipped
Rebuilt the site around the Build Log idea instead of a static "now" page.
Thinking
Thinking about how much of the Chain Database work is worth writing up in public.
Still stuck
Spent an hour on the data model, no code yet.
Shipped
Shipped a small internal tool for [placeholder]: nothing public yet.
Thinking
Reading more than building this week.
Winding mountain road through Mount Laguna at golden hour

04 / Uses

Things that
earn a place.

Nothing here is aspirational. It stays because it works, wears in, and makes the day better. No affiliate theater—just tools, machines, and systems used in real life.

01

Rides

Field kit / In rotation

  1. 01 Hiboy P6

    Electric, quiet, and fast enough to make the commute feel like the good part of the day.

  2. 02 2025 Indian Sport Scout

    Built for long roads and no particular hurry to end them.

02

On the Water

Field kit / In rotation

  1. 01 Soft-top surfboard

    Forgiving enough to paddle out without overthinking it.

  2. 02 Boardshorts

    Warm water, no wetsuit, no excuses.

03

On the Course

Field kit / In rotation

  1. 01 Titleist T200 irons

    Precision when precision is the whole point.

  2. 02 Callaway Paradym AI Smoke driver

    Distance without giving up control.

  3. 03 Odyssey Stroke Lab putter

    The club that actually decides the round.

04

On the Trail

Field kit / In rotation

  1. 01 Osprey pack

    Carries what matters, disappears when it doesn't.

  2. 02 Brooks Cascadia

    Trail shoes built for miles that don't ask permission.

05

Build

Field kit / In rotation

  1. 01 Astro

    Fast, simple, and gets out of the way.

  2. 02 Supabase

    Database and storage without the overhead.

  3. 03 WordPress

    Still the right tool for some jobs.

  4. 04 Codex + Claude Code

    Two different ways of thinking against the same repository; the disagreement usually improves the work.

  5. 05 GitHub Desktop

    A visual checkpoint before anything becomes history.

Last reviewed / August 2026

05 / Contact

Leave a
note behind.

The guestbook is open. Tell me what brought you here, what you're building, or where our paths crossed.

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