Writings & field notes
A chronological ledger of articles. Some technical, some personal, some somewhere in between.
13 Oct 2026 7 min read
It's fucking unreal that we can even think about a year like this. Waves, work and family life across a few possible bases, with plenty to figure out and the freedom to give it a go.
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12 Oct 2026 5 min read
I have ADHD, and I work well when there's plenty going on. I like that pace. Being present for the people I love can be much harder, and I'm trying to get better at it.
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23 Sept 2026 4 min read
Years of collecting pieces (illio, Jev, Neo4j, Perigon, X). Then a hundred agents turning them into a mess. Then the morning it all hums and nobody has found the bug yet.
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22 Sept 2026 8 min read
A hundred agents on one repo write code faster than anyone can review it. Entire, Cursor's Origin, GitLab's Orbit and GitButler are all betting the hard part is now integrating that code and remembering why it exists. They're right.
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08 Sept 2026 1 min read
The day trips I'd plan from our home on Mauritius's west coast: how long each takes, whether you need a car, where to eat, and a planner to fit it all into your stay.
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05 Sept 2026 4 min read
Semester one showed that the Duckies train harder as a group, and that parents belong in the water with them. Semester two makes that a rule. Also, there's granola now.
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29 Aug 2026 5 min read
Estelle's internship: turn a granola idea into a tested product that people who don't know us would actually buy, then launch it at the October surf competition.
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18 Jun 2026 8 min read
A 200k-line PR made my laptop wheeze. The code looked clean, the tests existed, and nobody could reasonably review it.
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31 May 2026 5 min read
Three months of work looked great on land. Then Noah had to paddle it out at Tamarin with the other kids watching.
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30 May 2026 5 min read
A team only escaped its production failure by turning the agents off. I'm keeping the agents, so I wanted rules that survive contact with Monday morning.
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30 May 2026 23 min read
Noah's first custom surfboard is done: three months of foam dust, slow sanding and spray paint, plus a duck he drew at the kitchen table that the other kids argued into a logo.
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29 May 2026 5 min read
AI slop doesn't look bad. It looks fine, and that's exactly why teams ship it.
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28 May 2026 8 min read
We handed an architect a written concept and a hundred reference images and got back a competent permit drawing that wasn't ours. Some parts are worth keeping; the interior starts again from zero.
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20 May 2026 6 min read
I shipped Gaussian splats into Baubiber so a contractor in Pécs can walk around a kitchen in Tamarindo from a browser tab. Plus what the tech actually is, where the world-model people are heading, and how early it all still is.
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21 Apr 2026 6 min read
I told investors the same story five times in four days and it landed twice. A 1948 paper about telegraphs and telephones explained the other three.
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03 Apr 2026 16 min read
Every reference picture we've saved for the Balaton cottage, room by room, from the kitchen island to the sauna deck. Some of them are only here for one detail.
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02 Apr 2026 9 min read
We're turning a thatched-roof summer cottage above Lake Balaton into a year-round house for long dinners, books, wine, a sauna, kids in the garden, and no television.
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02 Apr 2026 8 min read
Two recommended architects, one pool quote for a hillside vineyard, and weeks of unanswered messages. The Balaton cottage showed me how finding a good professional still runs on referrals and luck, so I started building Baubiber.
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03 Mar 2026 6 min read
Six kids signed up for surfing. They get squats, pop-ups, pretend paddling and about fifteen minutes in the water, and that's on purpose.
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01 Mar 2026 1 min read
I liked drawing Noah's morning worksheet by hand. Producing a fresh one before coffee was the less charming part.
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25 Feb 2026 24 min read
Noah is 8 and wants flames on his surfboard. This is our twelve-week plan to build it with the Santosha shapers without turning it into homework.
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23 Feb 2026 4 min read
Noah wanted a fitness watch. I talked him into a surfboard instead, then asked the shapers if we could learn to shape it ourselves.
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16 Feb 2026 6 min read
Prospects kept telling me the product was very interesting. The calendar told a different story, so I started listening to the calendar.
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13 Feb 2026 5 min read
My notes looked organised until I needed to know whether a product fact was still true. The missing field was the date.
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13 Jan 2026 4 min read
The address book is boring on purpose. The interview really starts once it works and I change the brief.
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21 Oct 2025 2 min read
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
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
In a frontend interview, the textbook answer tells me very little. I want to hear about the CSS bug the candidate has actually fought.
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11 Jan 2023 1 min read
A week into 2023: dry January is holding, bodypump was a mistake I'm glad I made, and CSS is off the guilt pile.
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04 Jan 2023 2 min read
I started 2023 with two hangovers, one from the wine and one from the year. My wife and I took two quiet days and came back with an embarrassingly ordinary list.
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