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An engineer-philosopher exploring how humans live coherently inside increasingly complex technological systems. The site holds engineering writing, AI-assisted development essays, philosophy, decanal journals, book reviews, films, and music in one place because those concerns belong together.
The territories
Engineering & AI Systems
Fifteen years of distributed-systems work; the last few of those running inside AI agent mode. Essays here are about what changes when the human is three abstraction levels above the code and still responsible when it breaks.
- How AI Is Changing Software Engineering · Cornerstone, 2026 field report
- DevOps Beyond Automation · Cornerstone, the career compound
- AI-Assisted Development Is Not Vibe Coding · Standalone essay
- AgentSpek: A Beginner's Companion to the AI Frontier · Book, free to read here + Amazon
- All engineering essays · Category
Philosophy & Meaning
What it means to be alive in a moment when machines are learning to think alongside us. Antifragility, cosmic perspective, consciousness, the long now. Less abstract than it sounds.
The Decan Log
A 36-decan calendar that splits the year into 10-day cycles, traced through the brightest fixed stars. Ancient timekeeping, modern practice. Used as the temporal substrate for journaling, decision-making, and the rhythm of long work.
Books & Ideas
Books that changed how I see things, written up so the reasoning is visible. Less "book report," more "how this rewired my thinking."
Creative Technology
Films, music, and games built from code. No GPU farms, no stock media, no audio libraries. The constraint is the design.
The projects
AgentSpek
A practitioner's guide to AI-assisted development, written for engineers who want to actually use agent mode.
It's the book I wish existed when I started directing AI agents through real production work.
Explore AgentSpek →The Decan Log
A book on the 36-decan calendar and a journaling practice rooted in 10-day cycles instead of 7-day weeks.
Built because the weekly grid doesn't match how attention, energy, and reflection actually move.
Explore The Decan Log →Napkin Films
An agent-directed animated short film studio. Stick figures, ElevenLabs voices, ChipForge music, FFmpeg assembly.
Because animated film is the most compressed form of storytelling I know, and the tools finally let one person make one well.
Explore Napkin Films →ChipForge
A music synthesis engine that generates every sound from pure numpy math, with no samples or audio libraries.
To explore what music can be when composition is pure math, and as a creative counterweight to purely analytical work.
Explore ChipForge →Pixel Vault
A growing museum of single-file HTML5 game prototypes, one mechanic at a time, organized by lineage.
To trace what each fundamental game mechanic actually is at its core, and to record 70 years of design history while making some.
Explore Pixel Vault →Velocidad
A general-purpose learning engine built around the produce-first / drill-friction loop, originally for Spanish.
Because the gap between recognition and production is the bottleneck in any skill, not just language.
Explore Velocidad →Where to begin
Six essays that, taken together, represent the worldview at its best.