I'm a staff software engineer and author based in Durango, Colorado.
My knowledge garden is Shard Gardens, where I think and write in the open.
In February 2025, I completed my first novella, Genny - A Near-Future Novella (pdf, ePub).
In August 2018, I published my first novel, Thoughts of an Eaten Sun.
I also keep an older blog, Sundered Peak.
You can check out my code on GitHub.
On Goodreads, I am kyletolle.
I also started the nano-press Burnished Letters Press Ltd. to publish my writings.
Projects
Fun little projects, rescued from retired platforms and rebuilt as durable static pages.
Colors — a color playground. Tap for a new random background.
Random — a dice roller where the URL is the roll. Try /random/#2d6+3.
Far Finger — drifting clouds over a hand-drawn world map.