Deep dives into reverse engineering, medical-grade systems, and building small but opinionated apps.
I analysed 20 years of my chats and turned 1.2M messages into a structured vault of my life - to win friends and influence people. Instead, I learnt things about my emotional bandwidth, endearment cycles, and friendship half-lives.
I wanted to cook venison from scratch, which meant learning to shoot, which meant keeping track of my progress, which meant porting a 2012 OpenCV paper and training a state-of-the-art computer vision model, which meant the dinner took a bit longer than expected.
I tried to prepare for life in French-speaking Canada by turning language drills into a Tamagotchi. It worked, as long as you don't ask me whether my coffee is for here or to go.
I shipped a wellbeing journal and discovered the App Store still isn't sure whether the human body is health, lifestyle, or sin.
Country borders don't return JSON, they return judgment. So I built a state machine for travel when governments won't expose your state.