Redemption Square
01Home is the point.
Family, land, animals, projects, and life in south Mississippi.
The chickens contribute eggs. The ducks mostly contribute ducks.
Hey, I’m Bryan.
I’m a husband and dad on a little patch of south Mississippi we call Redemption Square. I pastor Church At The Square, build websites and software through Salt Marsh Digital, and spend a lot of my spare brain cycles experimenting with AI and whatever computers are becoming next.
I like building things and understanding how things work.
- Sometimes that’s a church.
- Sometimes it’s software.
- Sometimes it’s a fence.
The categories matter less than you might think.
Four things, one life
Where my attention goes
Church At The Square
02The church I get to pastor.
Sermons, theology, ministry, teaching, and thoughts about following Christ together.
Old convictions, modern instincts. Ancient faith, present tense.
Salt Marsh Digital
03Things I build for the web.
Websites, software, design, infrastructure, and the occasional idea that got slightly out of hand.
I run most of my own servers because apparently I don’t have enough things that can break.
AI / Lab
04Things I’m trying to figure out.
AI, local models, agents, strange experiments, and notes from somewhere near the edge of personal computing.
AI coding agents are either the future of software development or an extremely elaborate way to introduce new bugs. Probably both.
The through line
Build what needs building. Tend what needs tending.
Some things get built. Other things get tended — and the tending is usually the part that decides whether the building mattered.
Built
- A church
- Software
- Websites
- Systems
- Fences
- Experiments
Tended
- A family
- A congregation
- Land and animals
- Ideas
- A business
- Software, still
Writing
Latest from the notebook
Notes on coding agents, so far
What I've actually observed handing real work to coding agents, as opposed to what I expected before I tried it.
Why I still run my own servers
Managed platforms are genuinely good now. I keep running my own anyway, and the reason isn't cost.
The ducks mostly contribute ducks
A short accounting of what the animals on Redemption Square actually produce, which is not always what they were brought here to produce.
Redemption Square
Home is the point
We call our little piece of south Mississippi Redemption Square. It’s home to our family, a couple of Great Pyrenees, sheep, goats, chickens, ducks, a pond full of fish, and an apparently permanent list of things that need fixing.
The chickens contribute eggs. The ducks mostly contribute ducks.