Essays are more refined pieces of writing that I run by other folks, edit more, and maintain for longer than notes. My hope is that these remain evergreen: useful long after they’re initially written.
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Recent Posts
The Wild Web
— Come with me and explore an invisible social network: IndieWeb, where the cowboy can-do attitude of Web 1.0 is alive and a-thrivin'.
Math is Dead, and Pickles are Small
— To understand why OpenAI completely upended the world of mathematics with its proof that Navier-Stokes is not smooth in three dimensions, you must first understand that cucumbers of any size can be properly pickled.
Software Gardening
— Garden-inspired development as a non-sinister, people-centric way to think about post-LLM software development
Agentic Programming as Theory Building .pdf
— Do humans have a role in software development anymore? Absolutely — but we need to rethink what it means to program. An modern review of Peter Naur's 1985 essay "Programming as Theory Building"
The Advantages of Advantage: Intro to Probability Convolutions
— What *is* the advantage of rolling with advantage? Exploring dice roll combinations and probability convolutions.
Quartz Widgets: Graphs, Galore!
— I killed 4 of my blogs trying to implement MDX support. Will this one be next? Using MDX with Quartz to create interactive graphs, diagrams, and demos — clear as day.
LLMs: A Primer Presentation for Our Newest, Scariest Tool .pdf
— An engineer-focused primer on the mechanisms that drive Large Language Models. Basics on how we got here, how they work, and how to use them without feeling an apocalyptic dread.
GPTinglish: Unnatural Language Processing
— The only market crashing is the market for sanitized language. Stay human. Embrace typos.
How to Write a Resume in Typst
— A beginner-friendly and guided resume starter for Typst users! Great for anybody looking to easily maintain and adapt their resume to new applications.
The Unbearable Weight of ROBLOX Celebrity
— Being famous online in 2009 is the highest high I'll ever reach. A love letter to the coolest dork I know, hatemail for client-side exploits, and a limitless supply of Monopoly dollars.
Hello, Blog! (Posts by a dummy, for other dummies)
— The obligatory "Hello!" post to suss out what this site will be. Python examples as unnecessary as the post itself.
Core Posts
Software Gardening
— Garden-inspired development as a non-sinister, people-centric way to think about post-LLM software development
Agentic Programming as Theory Building .pdf
— Do humans have a role in software development anymore? Absolutely — but we need to rethink what it means to program. An modern review of Peter Naur's 1985 essay "Programming as Theory Building"
LLMs: A Primer Presentation for Our Newest, Scariest Tool .pdf
— An engineer-focused primer on the mechanisms that drive Large Language Models. Basics on how we got here, how they work, and how to use them without feeling an apocalyptic dread.
The Unbearable Weight of ROBLOX Celebrity
— Being famous online in 2009 is the highest high I'll ever reach. A love letter to the coolest dork I know, hatemail for client-side exploits, and a limitless supply of Monopoly dollars.
Math is Dead, and Pickles are Small
— To understand why OpenAI completely upended the world of mathematics with its proof that Navier-Stokes is not smooth in three dimensions, you must first understand that cucumbers of any size can be properly pickled.
GPTinglish: Unnatural Language Processing
— The only market crashing is the market for sanitized language. Stay human. Embrace typos.
The Advantages of Advantage: Intro to Probability Convolutions
— What *is* the advantage of rolling with advantage? Exploring dice roll combinations and probability convolutions.
Quartz Widgets: Graphs, Galore!
— I killed 4 of my blogs trying to implement MDX support. Will this one be next? Using MDX with Quartz to create interactive graphs, diagrams, and demos — clear as day.
How to Write a Resume in Typst
— A beginner-friendly and guided resume starter for Typst users! Great for anybody looking to easily maintain and adapt their resume to new applications.
Hello, Blog! (Posts by a dummy, for other dummies)
— The obligatory "Hello!" post to suss out what this site will be. Python examples as unnecessary as the post itself.