Essay
I Don't Like Data Entry
Twenty years of avoiding the human join operation — from PDF figures and PowerPoint refusals through Paradigm and Postgres to Flexcompute Thread.
TopologyThreadEngineering dataLong read
Writing
Notes from the argument.
Technical stories, critiques, and explanations. The aim is not to sound polished; the aim is to leave enough reasoning on the page that someone else can check the work.
Read
Essay
The Brain That Was a Tax Is Now an Asset
ADHD, medication, and a swarm of cheap fast specialists arriving roughly at the same time — and what happened to the cross-domain generalist when they did.
ADHDAIOrchestrationLong read
Essay + tool
Why choosing the right fit matters
A critique of polynomial trendlines in aircraft fuel-efficiency analysis, with an embedded tool for comparing polynomial, spline, and power-law fits.
Curve fittingFlight mechanicsPolicyInteractive
Article
Porting XFOIL to Rust
A long-form write-up on building FlexCompute Foil, with interactive validation sweeps against XFOIL.
RustWebAssemblyXFOILValidation
Article
Porting XFOIL to Rust, Pt II
The geometry problem: why a solver that matches XFOIL on clean airfoils falls apart with flap deflection, and how porting GDES FLAP fixed it.
RustXFOILSplinesFlap geometry