Writing
Notes from writing it myself.
Long-form writeups of things built here — systems work, applied LLMs in regulated environments, and what breaks when you remove the framework. Canonical on this domain.
2026-09-25
engineering
8 MIN
Drawing the sky in ASCII
How the Earth, Moon and stars behind this site are drawn: one canvas, a 1.7 KB map, alpha buckets, dirty rectangles, and a few things that went wrong.
2026-08-24
engineering
3 MIN
On being pragmatic
Correct and right are different things. Correct ships; right matches an idea the author had. Most of the damage in this industry lives in the gap.
2026-07-25
systems
3 MIN
Building c-copper: what a web framework in C teaches you
Why I wrote the framework serving this page in C99 with no framework dependencies, the decisions that mattered, and what the numbers say.
3 entries