Blog
Thoughts on code, creativity, and the chaos in between.
Vintage Vestige: Teaching a Search Engine to Speak Fashion
How I built a semantic search engine for historical fashion collections using Claude, CLIP, and vector embeddings — and what MindCap taught me about input quality.
The Part Nobody Talks About: Keeping an AI on the Same Page
The hardest part of working with AI isn't the code — it's the context. Here's the documentation system that made long-term AI collaboration actually work.
1,212 Lines Deleted, Zero Lines Missed
Full-stack refactor complete: replaced a 15-category system with five behavioral intents, deleted 1,212 lines, and caught a silent bug hiding in the pattern detector.
Building the Fix: 700 Lines That Replaced 1,000
Two phases into replacing MindCap's categorization system with intent detection. Simpler, broader, and half the code.
How I Caught a Blind Spot That Would've Sunk MindCap
I ran keyword extraction against 56,000+ real browsing records and found the system only understood programmers. Here's how I redesigned it.
Dev Diary: Content-First Categorization
Rethinking topic categorization by prioritizing content signals over domain signals, plus URL garbage filtering.
MindCap: Teaching Software to Understand Rabbit Holes
Development diary on rabbit hole tracking, keyword extraction, and the cognitive overhead of building alone.
React Refactor & Finding My Voice
Escaping Intermediate Hell, rebuilding in React, and rediscovering my voice with the help of AI.
The Hard Part: Understanding Attention Through Behavior
The biggest, most ambitious project I've ever built—and an honest look at the difficulties of inferring attention from observable behavior.
Building a Topic Registry: Tracking Digital Attention Over Time
Transforming raw browsing sessions into meaningful insights about what topics capture your attention and how that interest evolves.
MindCap: Building an Attention Tracker with My AI Thought Partner
The story of building a browser extension to understand where your attention actually goes online, and what it's like to develop with Claude as a thought partner.
Firefox History Crawler: Digital Archaeology for the Chronically Curious
Building a Python tool to crawl 56,000+ URLs from my Firefox history and discover what I've actually been doing on the internet.