Technical deep dives, build guides, and essays on why systems work the way they do. Infrastructure, economics, simulation, and the occasional contrarian take on AI.
Every RPG promises a living world full of people with their own lives. Every RPG breaks that promise the moment you look closely. The problem isn't engineering. Real economies don't work without political resistance.
A critical look at the current state of AI scaling laws, and why biological intelligence suggests we might be solving the wrong problem. We must simulate the Umwelt, not the universe.
A technical deep dive into migrating from traditional Edge Ingress to a Zero Trust model using Cloudflare Tunnels, Traefik, and GitOps. Learn how to invert the connection model for enhanced security.
A comprehensive guide to implementing infrastructure as code with ArgoCD, Sealed Secrets, and microservices architecture. Learn how to build secure, automated deployment pipelines with encrypted secrets safely stored in Git.
A complete engineering guide to designing and constructing a high-density distributed systems laboratory. Covers hardware selection, power budget analysis, and custom thermal management firmware.