About
I work in technology and spend a lot of time thinking about AI, software, learning, and building useful things.
This site is my public notebook: tools I am trying, things I am building, and concepts I am learning.
A low-friction place where I can put thoughts before they become stale.
Recent Articles
- LLM training, seen as data
A visual walkthrough of modern LLM training through the data at each step: pretraining rows, midtraining mixtures, supervised fine-tuning, preferences, RLHF, reasoning RL, tool use, agent trajectories, domain data, safety, distillation, and evals.
June 22, 2026 - Building a tiny browser-playable world model
A visual walkthrough of a tiny Breakout world model, from simulator data to a playable neural browser demo.
June 15, 2026 - Agent-native gateway
A production-focused, visual explanation of the agent-native gateway pattern: how coding agents safely discover, authenticate, and call internal APIs, MCP servers, and third-party applications through an open-source enterprise stack.
June 7, 2026 - What training a tiny text-to-image model looks like
A first-principles visual walkthrough of training a small latent text-to-image generator from random weights: captions, embeddings, tensors, latents, tokens, flow matching, loss, sampling, Self-Flow-lite, monitoring, and prompt coherence.
June 2, 2026 - LLM inference, from request to token
A visual, source-grounded walkthrough of LLM inference and serving using nano-vllm and Mini-SGLang: tokens, prefill, decode, KV cache, scheduling, batching, prefix caching, CUDA graphs, tensor parallelism, and streaming.
May 31, 2026 - Building a wildfire simulator with neural cellular automata
A visual walkthrough of cellular automata, neural cellular automata, local prediction, control, and how training would teach the shared rule.
May 29, 2026 - The die is not the whole product
A visual note on why advanced AI chips are shaped by packaging, memory, heat, alignment, power, cooling, and manufacturing.
May 24, 2026 - Evals with Harbor Framework
A problem-first walkthrough of building and running a Harbor Framework eval for an agent that repairs a token billing ledger.
May 24, 2026 - Follow the numbers through an AI chip
A visual explainer about why AI chips are built around data movement, and how that turns into latency, batching, memory bandwidth, and long-context costs.
May 23, 2026 - Ask for the other drafts
A small note on verbalized sampling and using AI to write more creatively.
May 2, 2026 - This site
A public notebook with four simple shelves.
April 25, 2026 - AI and software
Notes on how AI changes the way software gets made and learned.
April 25, 2026 - Low-friction notes
A reminder to publish small thoughts while they still have energy.
April 25, 2026 - Astro and Cloudflare Pages
A small test of a plain Markdown-first publishing setup.
April 25, 2026