Essays

What was once considered a test of "real AI" - now built entirely in a single blog post.

Let's see if Claude can find anything that the New York Times missed.

The downsides to wearing a fitness-tracking device on your finger

Macros, workouts and life admin.

A short write-up on my experience completing a Computer Science BSc from my bedroom.

The surprisingly difficult ordeal of sending a decade-old MacBook to a friend in a Ugandan refugee camp.

We probably need to do deliberate daily mental exercise

I guess there is only one hard thing left in Computer Science?

A Jupyter Notebook-style Obsidian plugin that runs code in your notes and stores the outputs directly in the Markdown file.

An approach to agentic software development that I use

is verification the future of software engineering?

how I integrate OpenClaw into my Obsidian vault

in which the LLM maintains a spec file alongside the project

An Obsidian plugin that automatically replaces filenames in your links with the actual note title, supporting both Wikilinks and Markdown links.

Experiments with multi-turn character consistent editing

a few comparisons of Google's Imagen 4 vs OpenAI's gpt-image-1

we should educate developers accordingly

Training a singing voice conversion model on my voice

A use case for ChatGPT

Idempotence is a key property of a fault tolerant and easy-to-operate data pipeline

Developers must be vigilant of slow user interfaces

Apply the Stepdown Rule to the ordering of methods

Start the day by focusing on the work

A short document that explains how your team documents things.

Practical notes on migrating a 2TB HBase cluster from Rackspace to AWS with minimal downtime using CopyTable.

Walking tree-structured data in PostgreSQL.

An Ansible playbook for running tcpdump in parallel across many servers and collecting the captures.

An introduction to Ansible