Essays
Longer-form, opinionated writing across engineering (28), personal (6), and cooking (1).
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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.
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What's in the Box? A Field Guide to AI Models
A beginner-friendly tour of parameters, quantization, MoE, context windows, and other LLM jargon.
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Stealing from Biologists to Compile Haskell Faster
The trick that makes GHC’s ApplicativeDo optimization faster is structurally identical to how biologists predict RNA folding.
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Making Haskell Talk to PostgreSQL Without Suffering
How to eliminate the three performance taxes that make database queries slow: encoding overhead, round-trip latency, and N+1 query patterns.
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Notes
All notes →Loose, unpolished thinking from my knowledge base. Working with the garage door open.
Workbench
All projects →Tools and libraries under active development.
RFC Browser
An annotated reader for IETF RFCs with enhanced typography and relationship graphs.
GHC Memory Layout Visualizer
Interactive visualization of how GHC lays out Haskell data types on the heap.
Temporal.io Haskell Client
Durable execution for Haskell, in the face of failure.
Haskell OpenTelemetry SDK
Primary author and maintainer of the Haskell OpenTelemetry ecosystem.