Technical field reports, thoughts on systems architecture, and engineering reflections.

• JUN 20264 MIN READ
  Ghosts, Animals, and the Bitter Lesson
  On biological priors, disembodied intelligence, and the coming abundance of reasoning.
• MAR 20262 MIN READ
  Why I built a RAG system that refuses to answer
  On choosing silence over confident wrongness.
• FEB 20262 MIN READ
  CSG in the browser: a field report
  Booleans are easy until they aren't.
• JAN 20262 MIN READ
  On building software that touches atoms
  When the bug is also a physical object.
• DEC 20252 MIN READ
  Zero-copy transfers and what they taught me about respect for memory
  An unexpected lesson in ownership from JavaScript.