AI Slop
18 Jun 2026 9 min read
The Person Looking for the Lie
I recently stared at a PR so large my laptop struggled to render the diff. The code looked clean, the tests existed, and still nobody could reasonably review it.
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A chronological ledger of articles. Some technical, some personal, some somewhere in between.
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Sunset Duckies
31 May 2026 5 min read
The First Heat
The board looked finished on land. The real test was paddling it out at Tamarin with other kids watching, and surfing it like his.
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AI Slop
30 May 2026 5 min read
Remedies for the Slop
After watching a team turn the agents off to escape a production failure, I wanted rules that survive contact with Monday morning.
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Sunset Duckies
30 May 2026 23 min read
Sunset Duckies: The Board
Noah's first custom surfboard is finished. Three months of foam dust, slow sanding, waiting, spray paint, one duck he drew, and a logo style the kids argued into shape together.
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AI Slop
29 May 2026 5 min read
How Do You Take Anything Seriously Anymore?
The scary part of AI slop is not that it looks bad. It looks fine. That is why teams ship it.
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Balaton Cottage
28 May 2026 8 min read
Every Project Is the Same Project: A Failed Architect Trial
The first architect trial for our Balaton cottage failed in a familiar way: competent drawings, wrong intent. Some parts are worth keeping. The interior is not.
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Baubiber
20 May 2026 6 min read
Gaussian splatting in Baubiber, and the slightly absurd state of 3D worlds
I shipped Gaussian splats into Baubiber so a contractor in Pécs can walk around a kitchen in Tamarindo from a browser tab. A few notes on what the tech is, where the world-model people are heading, and how early everything still is.
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Founder Notes
21 Apr 2026 7 min read
Three Bits Survive the Meeting
I told the same investor story five times in four days. Shannon helped explain why two versions landed and three didn't.
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Balaton Cottage
03 Apr 2026 16 min read
The Moodboard: Design Ideas for Every Room
The room-by-room reference file for our Balaton cottage renovation: kitchens, bedrooms, bathrooms, terrace, garden, sauna, and all the taste arguments in between.
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Balaton Cottage
02 Apr 2026 9 min read
Turning a Balaton Hilltop Cottage into a Year-Round Retreat
We're renovating a thatched-roof cottage above Lake Balaton into a house for long dinners, books, wine, sauna, kids in the garden, and no television.
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Baubiber
02 Apr 2026 8 min read
Why I'm Building an Uber for Construction (and Why It Started with a Cottage)
The Balaton cottage renovation exposed the worst part of construction: finding a good professional is still mostly referrals, Facebook groups, and luck.
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Sunset Duckies
03 Mar 2026 6 min read
Fifteen Minutes in the Water
The kids came for surfing. I gave them squats, pop-ups, and a long stretch of sand before they touched the water.
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01 Mar 2026 1 min read
Before the Coffee Kicked In
I liked drawing Noah's morning worksheet by hand. Producing a fresh one before coffee was the less charming part.
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Sunset Duckies
25 Feb 2026 24 min read
The Board Project
The working plan for Noah's custom surfboard: twelve weeks of board anatomy, sanding, paint tests, foam dust, and trying not to turn it into homework.
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Objects Born, Not Made
Noah wanted a fitness watch. I talked him into a surfboard instead, then asked the shapers if we could learn to build it.
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Founder Notes
16 Feb 2026 6 min read
The Calendar Does Not
Prospects said the product was interesting. I learned to stop listening to the adjective and watch what appeared on the calendar.
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Founder Notes
13 Feb 2026 5 min read
Old Certainty in a Fresh Shirt
My notes looked organised until I needed to know whether a product fact was still true.
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Founder Notes
13 Jan 2026 4 min read
Make the Requirement Annoying
An address book tells me almost nothing until I change the brief while we're both looking at the code.
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Founder Notes
21 Oct 2025 2 min read
Boring or Fancy
Two projects keep charging me in different currencies. I keep pretending the exchange rate is obvious.
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09 Feb 2023 1 min read
The Letter from FINMA
January brought our first cashflow-neutral month and a regulator's letter telling us to lose the name.
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01 Feb 2023 3 min read
Frontend Interview
The textbook answer tells me very little. I want the CSS bug the candidate has actually fought.
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11 Jan 2023 1 min read
CSS Is Back on the Desk
One week into January, the useful change isn't productivity. I'm curious again.
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04 Jan 2023 2 min read
The Hangover List
After a wine tasting and a year that moved too fast, my wife and I got two quiet days to decide what we wanted to keep.
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