Two Nights in Desolation Wilderness
September 12, 2026
A Labor Day weekend backpacking trip from Granite Lake to Upper Velma Lake, with a new sleep setup and more food than we needed.
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Trip to Southern Utah
July 4, 2026
We flew to Las Vegas, drove into southern Utah, and hiked around Zion, Escalante, and Bryce Canyon.
Farming Agent Mistakes
June 14, 2026
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
April 27, 2026
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
April 10, 2026
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
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 M3 iPad Air for reading, handwriting, and remote access without turning it into a laptop replacement.
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 lookup during static rendering.
Make Internal Tools Cheap to Try
February 28, 2026
A lightweight intake form, spreadsheet cleanup script, or dashboard mock can make an internal workflow concrete before it needs production engineering.
Codex for Site Edits, Sora for Visual Sketches
February 22, 2026
Codex helps me make small site edits from my phone; Sora remains a way to test visual directions before I know whether they belong.
Depth Changes Scaling, Not Just Capacity
February 15, 2026
Chapter 6 separates representational capacity, parameter efficiency, and learnability—and shows why depth changes scaling, not just expressiveness.
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
My AI-assisted coding workflow now uses short briefs, plan reviews, checkpoints, and build/lint/test verification.
Static Markdown Inside This Next.js Site
January 31, 2026
How repo-backed Markdown becomes static HTML without a CMS, database, or runtime admin surface.
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