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Cultivating a digital garden of systems, software, and the models we build to understand them.
One who works with the door open gets all kinds of interruptions, but they also occasionally get clues as to what the world is and what might be important.
PUBLIC_IDEA_GARDEN
A public idea garden for ideas in progress.
This space is a nonlinear collection of notes, tools, and systems research.
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ABOUT
One person, in public
Who is writing, and from where.
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PROJECTS
Garage of Projects
learning projects, tools, side experiments
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DISPATCHES
Writing
Long-form notes on systems, software, and general interests.
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VAULT
Notes
A slice of the zettelkasten. MOCs, seedlings, evergreens.
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ARCHIVE
Bookmarks
Curated collection of tools, libraries, and design inspiration.
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RECENT PROJECTS All projects →
SHIPPED
CPthreads
MapReduce: building Google's framework from the OSTEP spec
A C implementation of the Google MapReduce framework scaled for a single machine. Partitioning, sorted bucket chains, and thread-local iteration.
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Python
Lockdiff: making lockfile diffs readable
A small tool that pulls the signal out of tedious lockfile diffs, focusing on what actually matters: added, removed, and bumped packages.
SHIPPED
CPthreads
HiveParser: a multi-threaded log parser in C
A weekend log parser that taught me what 'mechanical sympathy' actually feels like — heap locks, false sharing, and the moment eight threads finally stopped tripping over each other.
SHIPPED
CPOSIX
turtsh: A UNIX Shell in C
A minimal POSIX shell implementation. Fork, exec, and parallel process management.
RECENT DISPATCHES All posts →
04 Aug '26
SYSTEMSLEARNING
The Lever Goes Backwards
Interventions in complex systems often invert themselves. From colonial rat bounties to industrial quotas, the cobra effect demonstrates why incentives reorganize behavior in unexpected ways.
20 Jul '26
LEARNING
When Formulas Freeze
Complexity theory meets statistical physics. Analyzing the sharp phase transitions where Boolean satisfiability problems transform from trivial to exponential.
08 Jun '26
LEARNING
Entropy to Order: How I Rebuilt My Second Brain in Mordor
I had a thousand bookmarks and zero ideas. This is the long story of how I tore the whole thing down, named the new system Mordor, and started writing notes that actually argue with me.
13 Feb '26
LEARNING
The Mass and the Mirror
A deep dive into the lineage of crowd psychology—from Le Bon's warnings to Bernays' manuals—and the danger of the exempted vantage point.
25 Mar '25
SYSTEMSLEARNING
The Lying Layer
Every layer of abstraction in a modern computer is a useful fiction. Learning to see through these fictions separates code writing from system understanding.