Experiments, half-finished thoughts and build logs on AI, code and design — written down before I forget them.
updated 2026-10 · 9 posts and counting · est. 2019 · rss · who writes this?
Why the outlined-sticker look works: honest borders, zero-blur shadows and one accent color. Reverse-engineering a design system I fell for, then rebuilding this very blog with it.
4px 4px 0 is a statement.Calibration beats confidence. A weekend fine-tune that rewards abstaining, with the training recipe, the eval harness and the three ways it went wrong first.
Thirty hand-written tasks, chance-corrected scoring, and a rule: no feature ships until the number moves. The spreadsheet that keeps me honest.
Markdown in, HTML out, nothing else. No plugins, no themes, no config file with 40 keys. The whole build is one Python script you can read over coffee.
Seven days with no timeline, no inbox-zero theater, no “just checking.” What came back first was boredom; what came back second was better.
Retrieval gives your model a library card, not a memory. On the difference between looking things up and actually knowing them — and when each one is enough.
About one email a month when something ships. No tracking pixels, no “just circling back.” Unsubscribe is one click and zero guilt.