Writing
Engineering articles based on my projects, essays from philosophy and college writing courses, and two short stories.
Engineering
Things I’ve built, and how I check that they work.
Building an art gallery with React and Supabase
How HOME/HOMELAND handles private submissions, concurrent media requests, expiring links, and recovery while people browse.
How I work with coding agents
How I use Claude Code and Codex: connected chats, adversarial review across models, HTML artifacts, and checks that can fail.
Testing an interface that changes every time
A runnable experiment with uivet: remove a price, inspect the report, and check that the gate actually fails.
Essays
On art, identity, and the years I spent dancing.
A memory is more than a record
My reading of Her through Locke and Dennett: memory, a self without a human body, and Samantha’s claim to individuality.
The hours and the help
My ballroom-dancing years, the 10,000-hour rule, and the opportunities that made practice possible.
What counts as art?
Dancing, playing guitar, and watching Good Will Hunting with my father.
Fiction
Short fiction from my college writing.
Arrival
A visitor arrives on Earth with a plan to help. A college-writing fragment.
Left Behind
A lamp, a teddy bear, and an empty house. A short story from 2025.