Camping Indoors in San Francisco
April 27, 2026
My first week in San Francisco has mostly been logistics, empty rooms, cats, and the slow work of making enough space to focus.
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Relearning Through Small Interactive Tools
April 10, 2026
Using a coding agent to build small browser tools turned out to be a good way to revisit concepts I had not touched in a while.
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Dropout as Implicit Bagging in Deep Learning
March 7, 2026
A concrete way to understand dropout in deep learning: shared-parameter ensemble training that approximates bagging without training separate models.
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iPad Air M3 11-Inch for Note-Taking: First Impressions
March 5, 2026
First impressions of the 11-inch iPad Air M3 as a lightweight reading, annotation, and note-taking setup for a study-heavy workflow.
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Making Responsive Images Just Work
March 4, 2026
I replaced scattered responsive-image conventions with a manifest-driven workflow that made authoring simpler and failures easier to see.
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More People Can Build Rough Tools Now
February 28, 2026
A conversation with colleagues made me think about what changes when the first version of a small tool gets cheaper.
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Using AI Tools for Small Site Edits and Visual Ideas
February 22, 2026
Reflections on how Codex, Sora, and other AI tools change the texture of small site edits, exploratory visuals, and creative judgment.
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Structural Reasoning About Deep Networks
February 15, 2026
Chapter 6 sharpened how I think about architecture as a structural assumption, not just a tuning choice.
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Deep Learning Part I Review: Goodfellow, Bengio, and Courville
February 7, 2026
A short review of Part I of Goodfellow, Bengio, and Courville's Deep Learning textbook, focused on the mathematical foundations.
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My AI Coding Workflow: Planning, Review, and Verification
February 3, 2026
How my AI coding workflow moved from quick snippets to clearer briefs, agent review checkpoints, and build/lint/test verification.
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The 'Boring' Architecture Behind This Blog
January 31, 2026
How I added a fully static, markdown-based blog to my Next.js portfolio.
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