Farming Expensive Coding Agent Sessions
June 14, 2026
My coding-agent sessions are more expensive now. The useful spend is the part that turns mistakes into better tests, graders, prompts, and checks.
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Camping Indoors in San Francisco
April 27, 2026
My first week in San Francisco: paperwork, an unfurnished apartment, two cats, Bay Trail runs, and waiting for furniture.
Coding Agents for Inspectable Browser Tools
April 10, 2026
Building frontend-only tools for load flow, Mandelbrot zooming, optimizer behavior, and event-loop ordering gave me concrete ways to inspect older technical models.
Dropout as Shared-Parameter Bagging
March 7, 2026
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
March 5, 2026
Notes on the 11-inch iPad Air M3 as a lightweight reading, annotation, and remote-workflow setup for studying.
One Manifest for Responsive Images
March 4, 2026
I replaced scattered responsive-image conventions in a Next.js static site with one generated manifest for variants, dimensions, and runtime lookup.
Make Internal Tools Cheap to Try
February 28, 2026
A conversation with colleagues about lower-friction AI-assisted prototypes for small internal tools.
Codex for Site Edits, Sora for Visual Sketches
February 22, 2026
How Codex made small website edits easier to make from a phone, while Sora still feels more useful for exploratory visuals than finished work.
Representation, Efficiency, and Learnability
February 15, 2026
Goodfellow Chapter 6 sharpened how I separate representation, parameter efficiency, and optimization when thinking about deep feedforward networks.
Math Foundations for Deep Learning
February 7, 2026
Part I of Goodfellow, Bengio, and Courville works best as shared vocabulary for later chapters, with proof details still worth supplementing.
Planning and Verification in AI-Assisted Coding
February 3, 2026
How my AI-assisted coding workflow shifted from quick snippets to clearer briefs, review checkpoints, and build/lint/test verification.
Static Markdown Inside This Next.js Site
January 31, 2026
How I added a repo-backed Markdown blog to my static Next.js portfolio without adding a CMS or runtime admin surface.
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