Now · May 2026

Updated May 11, 2026 · Berlin · Next refresh ~June 2026

🔬 Research

• TOE / Bipartite Universe CorpusAwaiting review — Paper "The Three-Channel Taxonomy of Light–Gravity Coupling: A Bipartite Reading of Einstein–Maxwell" submitted to Foundations of Physics (Springer Nature) on May 10. SNAPP ID 6ee9ff0b-fc04-452d-94fb-262ea3197a35. Editor decision expected by ~June 10. Desk-reject probability ~50% for independent authors; alternative is 2-4 month review cycle.
• Promotion of the submission — ORCID set up, Google Scholar profile live, Zenodo DOI pending (server slow), arXiv pending physicist endorsement, LinkedIn outreach drafted, Research Square preprint auto-routing via SNAPP opt-in.
• Audit position frozen at v2.57Holding — 0.5/11 SPECULATION promotion conditions met across 54 audit rounds. That's the correct answer when the open problems are open. Not manufacturing solutions.

🛠 Products

• Tupã IDEActive dev — Native macOS editor (Swift + Rust + Metal). Editor core, LSP integration, and Vim emulation shipped. AI sidebar and settings-sync in progress. Public beta when it's faster than what I use today.
• Lx8 Labs website (lx8labs.com)Polish — You're reading it. Polishing UX, adding course pages, building out the Insights section.

📚 Reading + watching

• "How to Take Smart Notes" by Sönke Ahrens — second read, finally implementing Zettelkasten properly via my AI memory system.
• The Mem0 paper (arXiv:2504.19413) — adopted the ADD/UPDATE/DELETE/NOOP reflection prompt pattern.
• CoALA (Sumers et al., Princeton 2023) — informs the structure of my ~/ai-memory repo.
• arXiv physics-gr-qc — daily skim while waiting for the editor decision.

📝 Writing

• Building a 3D algorithm visualizer in pure HTML — shipped May 11.
• Why I rewrote our deploy pipeline in Go — draft. ETA late May.
• Lessons from 13 years of consulting — draft. ETA June.

💼 Work

• Consulting capacity2 slots open — fixed-scope DevOps audits, AI feature productionization, platform reviews. Not retainers.
• CoursesPilot cohort soon — first live cohort of "Kubernetes for Production" planned for July 2026. Private team cohorts available now.

🌅 Life

• Berlin. Long walks in Tempelhof. Trying to keep guitar practice to 4 sessions a week.
• German B1 grind ongoing. Comprehension way ahead of speaking.
• One strict no-screens hour in the morning before opening anything.

⏸ Paused

• Paused Side projects unrelated to Lx8 Labs. Until Tupã IDE ships beta.
• Paused Conference speaking. Reading more than performing this year.
• Paused Social media. RSS-and-email only diet through end of 2026.