Humanity’s Cosmic Endowment
Who is the cosmic endowment owed to, and what might we owe the conscious minds we create?
Writing
Software, AI tools, technical books, and life outside work.
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Two Nights in Desolation Wilderness
A Labor Day weekend backpacking trip from Granite Lake to Upper Velma Lake, with a new sleep setup and more food than we needed.
Trip to Southern Utah
We flew to Las Vegas, drove into southern Utah, and hiked around Zion, Escalante, and Bryce Canyon.
Farming Agent Mistakes
When a coding agent makes a repeatable mistake, I try to keep the correction in the harness for the next run.
Camping Indoors in San Francisco
My first week in San Francisco: paperwork, an unfurnished apartment, two cats, Bay Trail runs, and waiting for furniture.
Load Flow and Mandelbrot in the Browser
A browser-based load-flow solver and Mandelbrot explorer let me revisit power-system analysis, numerical precision, and the limits of small client-side tools.
Dropout as Shared-Parameter Bagging
A concrete way to understand dropout in deep learning: sampled subnetworks with shared weights, standing in for a much more expensive ensemble.
Studying with the 11-Inch M3 iPad Air
Notes on the 11-inch M3 iPad Air for reading, handwriting, and remote access without turning it into a laptop replacement.
One Manifest for Responsive Images
I replaced scattered responsive-image conventions in a Next.js static site with one generated manifest for variants, dimensions, and lookup during static rendering.
The Review Bottleneck in AI-Assisted Coding
Agents can implement tasks in parallel; reviewing plans, checking edge cases, and coordinating the work still fall to me.
Static Markdown Inside This Next.js Site
How repo-backed Markdown becomes static HTML without a CMS, database, or runtime admin surface.
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