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- I Over Engineered a Journal to Understand My Needs
I cannot say what I need out loud, so I built something that traces friction back to the value underneath it.
part 3 of tools that know you
- Playing Rocket League and Navigating your Career as a Software Engineer are not so Dissimilar Experiences
Rank distribution, mechanical skill, and tech workers as stewards of the history they are letting get deleted.
- Intelligent Curation Tagging for Creative Workflows
14,000 RAWs and no taste-shaped filter. CLIP embeddings plus a probe trained on my own stars.
part 2 of tools that know you
- Building an Open-Source Safety Net for Home Hemodialysis
The machine beeps in the room and nowhere else. Ankaa pages a human instead.
part 1 of tools that know you
- A Brief and Impassioned Review of Hamilton the Musical and my Love/Mostly Hate Relationship with America
I love blackwashing US history. Hamilton is what made me admit most of it is wishful thinking.
part 4 of who gets to be a person
- Where to go from here
Answering the three questions: perception is virtual, and technology is the artifact of mapping lived experience onto a medium.
part 3 of the map ate the nation
- A Rant on The Genetic Lottery by Kathryn Paige Harden
You say material conditions. Harden says bet, let me test your genes to make sure though.
part 3 of who gets to be a person
- Emperor, Hostage, Despot!
Foucault, Arendt, Paxton. There is no singular authority — so why do we keep volunteering for a daddy?
part 2 of the map ate the nation
- Rules for Radicals
Power does not give itself up. Mill towns, prohibition, and what is left of southern organizing.
part 3 of freedom, and what it costs
- What Shines
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion. Can an act of destruction be virtuous?
part 2 of freedom, and what it costs
- Dont Let the Medium Dictate a Purpose for the Message
McLuhan, Baudrillard, Searle — and three questions about what a medium does to a mind.
part 1 of the map ate the nation
- Notes on Being Black and 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro
J.A. Rogers, afropessimism, and why the reminder that Black people are in history keeps having to be made.
part 2 of who gets to be a person
- a gift
Attack on Titan ch. 131 — dread, war, and whether we can hand the next generation anything worth having.
part 1 of freedom, and what it costs
- Making Blockbuster Movies that are Ideologically Meaningful Yet Unpolished in Order to Push Your View of the World Isnt Really Enjoyable
Tenet has ideas where a character should be. Nolan keeps trading people for premises.
- Black Rednecks and White Liberals
Reading Sowell: culture as inheritance, and middleman minorities catching the blame for succeeding.
part 1 of who gets to be a person
- Deploying Transformer Models
Serving SOTA language models with FastAPI, Docker, and Huggingface — and where the container gives out.
- Consuming the Plaid API with React and Go
A full-stack Plaid auth flow — Go on the back, React on the front, tokens in the middle.
- The Undiscovered Self pt. 2
The shadow is the only door out. Individuation as a debt you owe the next generation.
part 2 of the self against the mass
- The Undiscovered Self pt 1
Jung's mass man: what is left of a person after the state and the church each take their cut.
part 1 of the self against the mass