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SlateRides Ecosystem
An independent media and maker ecosystem connecting EV news, customization, community creativity, and an emerging owner-to-owner exchange.
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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.
Explore the work →01 / Field notes
Proof of
being there.
A geographic record of motion, weather, attention, and the ordinary places worth remembering.
02 / Sandbox
Where ideas
get dirty.
Active ventures, early signals, and useful experiments. The unfinished work belongs here too.
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Food Sex Alcohol (FSA)
An independent editorial journal about the meals, intimacy, and celebrations that make limited time feel well spent.
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Chain Database & Chain Intelligence Portal
A connected operating system that standardizes supplier programs, protects approved placements, and turns field activity into repeatable chain intelligence.
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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.
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.
Rides
Field kit / In rotation-
01 Hiboy P6
Electric, quiet, and fast enough to make the commute feel like the good part of the day.
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02 2025 Indian Sport Scout
Built for long roads and no particular hurry to end them.
On the Water
Field kit / In rotation-
01 Soft-top surfboard
Forgiving enough to paddle out without overthinking it.
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02 Boardshorts
Warm water, no wetsuit, no excuses.
On the Course
Field kit / In rotation-
01 Titleist T200 irons
Precision when precision is the whole point.
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02 Callaway Paradym AI Smoke driver
Distance without giving up control.
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03 Odyssey Stroke Lab putter
The club that actually decides the round.
On the Trail
Field kit / In rotation-
01 Osprey pack
Carries what matters, disappears when it doesn't.
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02 Brooks Cascadia
Trail shoes built for miles that don't ask permission.
Build
Field kit / In rotation-
01 Astro
Fast, simple, and gets out of the way.
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02 Supabase
Database and storage without the overhead.
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03 WordPress
Still the right tool for some jobs.
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04 Codex + Claude Code
Two different ways of thinking against the same repository; the disagreement usually improves the work.
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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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