Hello, world — why I'm starting this blog

I keep a lot of scratch notes: a kernel trick that took me three days to understand, a bug that turned out to be one missing flag in an Nginx config, a paper whose main idea I could only summarise after re-reading it twice. Most of these live in private markdown files that nobody (including me, later) ever reads again.

This blog is an attempt to push a few of those notes out into the open, mostly so that future me can find them with a search engine instead of digging through a folder called notes/.

What to expect

Short, specific write-ups. I'd rather post a 400-word note on one concrete thing I learned than a sweeping 2,000-word essay on a topic I don't fully understand. The rough topic areas:

• ML + systems — quantization, kernel writing, the bits where model work meets hardware.
• Self-hosting — the VPS / reverse-proxy / TLS side of running your own small services.
• Tangents — whatever side project has my attention that week.

Ground rules for myself

If I had to explain this to the version of me from six months ago, what would I say?

That's the bar. If I can't answer it, the post isn't ready. Everything else — tone, length, how polished the prose is — comes second.

More soon. Probably.