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2026

PROJECT LOG / RUST

Building a better machine room

On deterministic virtualization, bare metal, and making the machinery do exactly what you told it to.

FIELD NOTE / INFRASTRUCTURE

Small signals, useful noise

A tiny event synthesizer for the things worth knowing about a running system.

LAB NOTE / NETWORKS

Hardening the edge

Drawing a clean boundary between the public internet and the machinery behind the wall.

EXPERIMENT / COMPUTE

Notes on local inference

Useful intelligence, on your own hardware, with the knobs where they belong.