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working notes and scratchpad for things i’m learning or tinkering with. rough around the edges, updated as i go.
posts
longer form writing — things i’ve thought through enough to share with the world.
ai and the craft notes
rough pile on AI and the study of the craft.
agent harness notes
opencode’s edit tool doesn’t trust LLMs to give exact string matches.
docs as packages
i’ve been using Claude Code heavily for the last few months — for chonkie, for side projects, for basically everything.
dev tools have a new minimum
I’ve been building Mandex, a CLI tool, and somewhere along the way I realized: shipping a dev tool in 2026 is a completely different game than it was even two years ago.
so, you want to chunk really fast?
How we built memchunk - a blazing fast text chunking library using SIMD and memchr for RAG pipelines
tokenizer notes
github’s rust-gems bpe crate is quite interesting. they use aho-corasick algorithm to make a fast chunking and backtracking tokenizer.
on paste bins and jelly
I built a pastebin last week. Not because the world needed another one. There are plenty — Gist, Hastebin, Pastebin.com, PrivateBin, Opengist.