Writing
Notes on software and its design. Human written.
2026
When the spec writes itself: agents in regulated enterprise software
12 min read
Why front-loaded SDLCs in regulated enterprise are a near-ideal substrate for agent-driven development, and what that means for Low-Code
Vesper: a RISC-V64 kernel in Rust, no_std, no crates
13 min read
Building an OS from M-mode boot up to ELF parsing on QEMU virt, following Stephen Marz's OsBlog
Charta: state charts as the next IR for code-generating agents
9 min read
From LLMs that write code, to agents that run tools, to formally verified state charts you can codegen from
Derive: an embeddable RDF quad store in Zig
7 min read
Six permutation indexes, string interning, and a CRC-framed WAL
Coding vs Learning with LLMs
11 min read
The good, the bad and the you're absolutely right!
2025
EBCDIC: 8 bit character encoding
4 min read
IBM's encoding for data on mainframes
Arch Linux on a MacBook Pro, dotfiles for dev
2 min read
Mac is now Arch...
Dotfiles for a Mac: Hammerspoon, Ghostty, Z-Shell, Neovim and Zellij
5 min read
My collective configuration for dev on a Mac
Launchrail: a 6DOF rocket simulator with a Black-Scholes turbulence plugin
7 min read
OpenRocket files in, RK4 integration, ECS systems, and a quant-finance idea borrowed for atmospheric noise
Financial analysis and cloud platform for investment funds
6 min read
Developing a cloud platform for investment funds and financial analysis tools.
2024
2023
5D Perception™️ with radar for ADAS
4 min read
5D Perception™️ - Radar only classification, tracking and freespace segmentation for autonomous vehicles in all weather conditions.
LiDAR Robotic Teleoperation
3 min read
Enabling real-time remote control of UR6e robotic arm using your hand, for increased efficiency on assembly lines without shutdowns.