About

The Human

The human, Nikki!

I’m Nikki. For most of my twenty-five year career in technology, I’ve written software or managed those that did. I have worked at a number of early-stage start-ups that you have never heard of (employee #7 at Aereo), including CTO of The Financial Gym¹. I wrote my first program in 1986 at the age of 8 in BASIC. I built my first website in 1997. I am a self-taught programmer.

The technology industry is changing. AI is ubiquitous. I am both enamored with this new technology and slightly repulsed by it. Extremes aren’t useful here but adaptation and resiliency are; they are key to all hardships or upheavals. It certainly is an interesting time to experience, especially considering the state of the world in mid-2026.

The App

AI has changed how and what I build. I am using LLMs, primarily Claude Code, to build Ouroboros, an app that I have wanted for years but never had the time or additional skills to build. A personal information manager that doesn’t require a recurring subscription. An app that doesn’t hide or obfuscate your data, nor does it track you or have any telemetry involved. A personal information manager that doesn’t compartmentalize aspects of your life. Everything is related; we don’t live in isolation and we shouldn’t put up arbitrary borders.

Principles

• Single user. Ouroboros assumes you and you alone. No teams, no sharing, no permissions.
• Honest protocols. CalDAV, CardDAV, IMAP, SMTP, Markdown, VTODO. No new APIs.
• Relationship-driven. A meeting links to its attendees, which link to tasks, which back-link to other notes. Nothing is an island.

Colophon

All notes on this site are written by me, a real, live human. The Zola theme this site runs on has been built with the use of Claude Code and myself. The App and Docs pages were also a collaboration.