Wires & Wizards
An AI Assistant with Walter Sobchak's temper
Building a Big Lebowski character into a local voice assistant, and learning the personality was the easy part. The hard part was getting a custom wake word onto real hardware.
The Slate Truck is an open-source pickup: you pay for what you get, nothing you don't
An open-source OEM that ships unlocked and charges for what you get — not for what you unlock later. The most honest EV pickup on the way, and the most interesting.
The Keychron M5 made me a vertical-mouse convert
A flat mouse is a default you inherited, not a choice you made. The M5 is the first vertical mouse I've used that doesn't charge you performance for the comfort.
The agent that read my whole codebase before writing a line
On context windows, recall, and learning to trust the machine.
One Template, Every Meeting
Why I built a small Chrome extension to drop a reusable agenda into every Google Calendar event — and the one part that was genuinely hard.
A field guide to soft magic systems that don't cheat
Sanderson's laws — and exactly where I think they break.
Why the EV torque curve ruined gas cars for me
One test drive, and the whole hierarchy quietly collapsed.
Superpowers: Giving Claude Code a Process
A review of the Superpowers plugin, the process discipline coding agents don't have on their own, and where it earns its keep.
Two Karpathys
Andrej Karpathy's code is some of the most valuable work in AI. The sensational frames he coins are some of the most harmful. In a bubble, the difference has teeth.