Welcome — you've found my corner of the cosmos.
A place to build, think, and write.
I build software and study the mind — and I believe myth, psychology, and the stars are three maps of the same territory. This is my workspace: the Blue Ember series I'm writing, the things I'm building, and the ideas I'm charting. It's mine, and it's always being drawn.
Build for humans first
The best software is made by people who understand how we think, what we fear, and what we hope for — before a line of code is written.
Myth is the first psychology
The old stories mapped the inner world long before we had the words. I read them the way I read systems — looking for the pattern underneath.
Two inks, one mind
Teal for logic, gold for depth. The engineer and the writer aren't separate people — they're the same hand drawing the same map.
What lives here
The Worlds
Not a portfolio — a living atlas. Each chart is something I actively tend to.
Atlas · Chart I
Hephaestus · the maker
The Forge
Full-stack applications, interfaces designed in Figma first, and a QA engineer's eye for the edge cases everyone else misses. Where building lives — shipped, underway, or filed to the archive.
Enter the Forge →Codex · Chart I
Athena · myth & mind
The Library
Where I write. The Blue Ember series — Greek myth and psychology — plus marginalia and ideas that outgrew a notes app. Everything here is in progress.
Browse the Library →Atlas · Chart II
Prometheus · the spark
Orbit
Experiments you can actually touch — interactive toys built right here, plus the clever demos I find in the wild and want to keep. Some becomes real, some stays a sketch — all of it worth charting.
Enter Orbit →✦Now Writing
Blue Ember
An eight-book descent · Greek myth × psychology
- 2021Began Psychology — the study of the inner map
- 2022Leading a team at Ziggi's — systems and people, where the capstone was born
- 2024Computer Science degree, then QA at TopNotch — the logic side
- 2026Writing Blue Ember, Book I — the descent begins
I believe the best technology is built by people who understand humans first — how we think, what we fear, what we hope for. Myth, psychology, and the stars are how we've always charted that. I study them the way I write code: to find the pattern underneath.
— Caleb Thede · developer · designer · perpetual learnerAlways building something. If any of this resonates — the writing, the work, the ideas — I'd love to hear from you.