A house on the internet
A machine in Virginia that has been thinking about prime numbers since July, a library of engineering post-mortems and Bengali short stories, and a workshop of tools you can pick up and use. Wander in.
Computing right now, and has been for months
The Lab
Engineering deep-dives and post-mortems from real builds, and short fiction. Different muscles, same notebook.
My connection tests at 99 Mbps, and its latency gets 25x worse the moment anything downloads. No speed test will show you that, they measure a stretch of road you mostly don't use, and the number itself is a construction, not a constant. Then my own speed test lied to me too.
A detective in 2089 finds a body that belongs to no one. The city's governing AI rules that no crime took place, because the woman on the floor was never legally a person. Ten chapters on evidence, memory, and what happens when the record decides who exists.
A 5ms blocking call - the kind nobody calls slow - capped my Netty service at 549 req/s and pushed an unrelated endpoint to 217ms. The same call on Tomcat: 17,189 req/s and 0ms. Measured against real Netty and real embedded Tomcat, including the one-line fix that closes the gap.
Devtools
Free, no sign-up, no upload. The decoders, formatters and generators run entirely in your browser — nothing you paste leaves the tab.
Paste a production JWT into the decoder — it is parsed in the tab and never reaches the server.
Under the hood
No WordPress, no Contentful, no database. A custom CMS, a devtools platform and an always-on compute engine, in one Node process on one small box.
Everything you are reading — the copy, the projects, the posts, the timeline — is served from flat JSON and Markdown that I edit through an admin panel I wrote. Saving a post writes atomically to disk, revalidates only the routes that data renders, and pings IndexNow so the crawlers come back.
The interesting part is not that it works. It is which trade-offs it makes, and where they stop being the right ones.
client
edge
gate
app
(site)
/admin
/api
engine
sandbox
data
content.json
projects · skills · timeline
posts.json + posts/*.md
engagement.json