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Hello, world — this blog is HTML all the way down
Why I store posts as plain HTML in git, and how a small design engine turns any markup into a page that matches my portfolio.
Notes from the workbench
Writing on software engineering, AI agents, and whatever else I'm building. New posts land here first.
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DeepSeek V4: How They Crushed the Million-Token Memory Problem
A million-token context window sounds impressive. Making it cheap enough to actually use is the hard part — and the engineering behind it is worth understanding properly.
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The Local Model Plus Outsourcing Bet Against Frontier API Pricing
Working through the cost architecture and where the latency math gets messy.
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The AI Coding Metric Nobody Has Actually Measured
Nolan Lawson's post made me realize why 'better code' never got the marketing that 'faster code' did.
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DeepSeek Reasonix and the Economics of the Agent Prompt Loop
Why 'native' KV-cache design in a coding agent makes context ordering a first-class engineering constraint, not an afterthought.