I write small pieces of code and spend a disproportionate amount of time exploring the subtleties of the systems beneath them. Most days I'm living in a handful of terminals. Grateful to Bram Moolenaar for giving us Vim and making our lives far less painful.

This place is where I work out what I actually think. Most of it is about tech, science and the art of doing unglamorous work for a long time. Some of it is personal.

Recent essays

  • Everything is Math

    Everyone's talking about the latest AI breakthroughs, but few are talking about the math quietly making them possible. This post digs into the simple ideas that power today's LLMs