Field notes / engineering journal

Writing

Notes on systems, software, and the decisions that make useful tools work in the real world.

Index / published work

Essays and field reports

  1. Conduit - AI Driver

    As I started building more tools that needed to communicate with AI models, whether locally or through hosted providers, I found myself repeatedly solving the same problem. I started looking through public repositories to see what was already available. There were certainly options, but many came with considerably more functionality than I needed. Agents, workflows, memory management, orchestration, and additional abstractions that didn't belong in the applications I was building. I wasn't loo

  2. Building Loom: The Manuscript Should Stay Sovereign

    How a repetitive writing workflow turned into Loom: a local-first writing environment built around manuscript sovereignty, structured context, and AI as a creative sounding board rather than an author.