About

Hi, I’m David Clark — a neuro-spicy geek, family man, and lifelong tinkerer living in Woodstock, Georgia.

I spent the first half of my career as a developer (1997–2017), writing code everywhere from the dotcom boom in San Diego to telecom assembly lines in New Jersey to Atlanta’s suburbs. These days I work in IT Operations at Cox Communications, owning a handful of Pega-based platforms and running incident command when things go sideways. It turns out that two decades of writing software makes you pretty good at knowing where to look when it breaks.

This blog is where I think out loud.

You’ll find posts about technology and the tools I’m tinkering with, books I’m reading (Tolkien, Sapkowski, Hugh Howey, Adam Smith — it’s a wide tent), movies and TV my family is watching, sports (Atlanta Braves, Patriots, Celtics, Bruins — yes, all of them), and whatever rabbit hole I’ve fallen down this week.

I’m a GenX kid who grew up on Saturday morning cartoons, Creature Double Feature, and a blinking cursor in Zork. That probably explains a lot.

Outside of work, I coach, I walk, I read, and I cook Sunday dinner for the family most weeks. My wife Natalie and I have three kids — Kate, John, and Nora — plus two beagles named Rose and Iris who have strong opinions about everything.

My operating philosophy, borrowed from the Stoics: deal with what life is as you can.

Thanks for being here.

— David