Software engineer, indie hacker, food enthusiast.
Essays
37 entries. Longer-form, opinionated writing across engineering, personal, and cooking.
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Who Owns the Machines?
The AI risk worth losing sleep over isn't a rogue superintelligence. It's cheap, AI-powered hacking of brittle infrastructure, and a handful of companies using the fear to lock everyone else out of the technology.
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Sex, AI, and the Apocalypse
How a community devoted to thinking clearly incubated salvation stories, abusive experiments, race science, and an affection for autocracy, and why that history matters now that its alumni are asking for public trust on AI.
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Getting Freaky in the Age of AI
The only way to have a competitive edge in the age of AI is to be aggressively weird with what you build.
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The Mathematics of Build Queue Optimization and Auto-Scaling
A deep dive into queueing theory and auto-scaling for CI/CD build fleets, exploring when and how to optimize build infrastructure for both cost and developer productivity.
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Deconstruct the Monolith: Composable App Bootstrapping with Fractal Layer
How fractal-layer attacks the compilation bottleneck and initialization chaos of the monolithic App datatype by treating startup as a composable graph of resource-managed layers.
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Brief aan de Eerste Kamer over box 3 · A letter to the Dutch Senate on Box 3
Waarom de vermogensaanwasbelasting slecht uitpakt — voor de belastingplichtige, de schatkist en de economie. · Why the accrual tax is bad for the taxpayer, the Treasury, and the economy.
Notes
Loose, unpolished thinking from my knowledge base. Working with the garage door open.
Workbench
Tools and libraries under active development.
RFC Browser
An annotated reader for IETF RFCs with enhanced typography and relationship graphs.
on this siteGHC Memory Layout Visualizer
Interactive visualization of how GHC lays out Haskell data types on the heap.
on this siteTemporal.io Haskell Client
Durable execution for Haskell, in the face of failure.
github.comHaskell OpenTelemetry SDK
Primary author and maintainer of the Haskell OpenTelemetry ecosystem.
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