Writing.

Building a personal AI assistant exposed a harder problem than reasoning: letting a browser agent authenticate safely.

I had ideas. I just never published them. So I built a workflow that gets out of the way.

A short Uber ride became a lesson in the trade-offs we make in the name of efficiency.

Thinking through the costs of compromise and the clarity that comes from choosing a direction.

Notes from judging an Open Source AI Hackathon at Microsoft Reactor in Seattle.

Following a Microsoft API defect through integration layers reveals the hidden cost of abstractions.

Comparing real-time options data APIs through the lens of a hobbyist’s requirements and budget.

A Microsoft Graph API bug, a missing task list, and the cascading effects of an abstraction that leaks.