Notes from the work
Things I’ve built, ideas I’ve tested, and the decisions I’d make differently. The technical details, with the reasons behind them.
Simulation / Optimization / Computer vision / Game systems / Simulated annealing · 7 min read
Building a screenshot-to-plan tool taught me that a search algorithm is only as useful as the world it is searching. Try the planner, then follow the decisions behind it.
Reading notes / Anthropic / Dynamic workflows / Agents / Evaluation / Orchestration · 5 min read
Reading Anthropic’s dynamic-workflows article alongside the decisions I made in Resume Gauntlet: separate the work, verify the artifact, and make failure count.
Open source / MCP / TypeScript / Performance / Testing · 4 min read
A Notion MCP pull request reduced the tool-list response by pruning unreachable definitions. The interesting work was proving what remained.
AI safety / Evaluation / RAG / False positives / Research · 5 min read
A defense reached zero attack success in one test. The more useful question was what happened to the clean answers.
Knowledge systems / Search / Provenance / Product engineering / Publishing · 5 min read
What I changed in Kiln to keep ideas useful without losing the evidence, the uncertainty or the original source.
Graphics / Three.js / Shaders / Interaction design / Debugging · 4 min read
A small visual defect in this site turned into a useful distinction: lighting the background and revealing its geometry are different operations.