Journal

Notes from what I build, notice, and think about. Engineering, experiments, and questions that follow me outside the work.

Articles are developed arguments. Notebook entries preserve work in progress.

Recent writing

Sep 13, 2026Article
The Version of You That Exists in My Head
We know people through incomplete models built from memory, experience, and assumption. Then we treat them according to those models and mistake what comes back for proof that we saw them clearly.
Aug 23, 2026Article
The Strange Way We Find Each Other
Friendship begins without ceremony: two strangers happen to meet, keep talking, and slowly become witnesses to each other's private worlds.
Aug 22, 2026Article
People Are the Most Beautiful Thing in the World
People are strange, limited, contradictory creatures, each living inside a private world and quietly changing the worlds of others. That may be exactly what makes them beautiful.
Aug 17, 2026Article
You're Not Seeing Reality. You're Seeing What Spreads
A feed is not a sample of reality. It is the output of a selection process, which means repetition can look like independent confirmation and popularity measures attention rather than truth.
Aug 13, 2026Article
Social Media Is a Distribution System
A post is only one part of an online presence. The larger system connects useful interactions, a clear profile, an accumulated body of work, and a website where passing attention can become trust over time.
Aug 11, 2026Notebook
Building HyDE Display Settings in one long feedback loop
A chronological implementation log of a native HyDE control center, from screen-time tracking and Waybar integration to privacy hardening, a stale hypridle process, live DPMS testing, and several UI reversals on a real theme.
Aug 9, 2026Article
Living in the Dark: What Light Might Be Doing to the Mind
I spend a lot of time in a dark room. A small shift I noticed when turning on a light led me into the research on indoor lighting, alertness, sleep, mood, and the limits of explaining a personal experience.
Aug 7, 2026Notebook
Building Aruo: the project decision journal
One chronological record of the product, UX, architecture, testing, and implementation decisions made while building Aruo's create and doctor workflows, reconstructed from the repository and verified commits.