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Technical & data notes
- July 2026TECHNICAL & DATA NOTES
A daily puzzle is a constraint satisfaction problem wearing a costume
Pivot's generator: guaranteeing a solvable path on every grid is the hard part; the UI isn't.
- July 2026TECHNICAL & DATA NOTES
Designing for the reader who doesn't trust you
Every claim on this site is falsifiable in one click: why PORTFOLIO.md exists.
- July 2026TECHNICAL & DATA NOTES
Nyquist doesn't care about your model
Sampling, aliasing, and information you can't recover once it's discarded: ECE intuition applied to ML data pipelines.
- July 2026TECHNICAL & DATA NOTES
Realtime is a consistency problem, not a speed problem
Stickbook anchor: multiple phones, one canvas, concurrent drags on the same sticker.
- July 2026TECHNICAL & DATA NOTES
Why I removed Rust from my skills list
Credential inflation is an epistemics problem, not a modesty problem.
Reflections
- May 2026REFLECTIONS
Kumpo: the spirit that arrives
A masquerade in Casamance, read past the viral clips. On a technology of belonging, one made of palm fronds and awe rather than code, and why it's under the same pressure as everything else.
- April 2026REFLECTIONS
A better answer to "Where do you see yourself in five years?"
The question is broken, and the interviewer usually can't answer it about themselves either. A framing from communication coach Satish Torani, and why 'adaptable' is the only honest specialization left.
- April 2026REFLECTIONS
What I actually think about "The Secret"
The law of attraction is false as physics. But strip the mysticism and there's a real, boring mechanism underneath: your reticular activating system, aligned behavior, and tolerance for the work. Clarity changes what you do.