Writing
- I pack from a list, every time travel The packing checklists I use for day hikes, backpacking, ski tours, and surfing, plus the research showing checklists beat memory.
- Booking (and Packing) the O Trek travel What it actually takes to book the O Trek: six months ahead is the floor, two separate campsite operators, food gaps to plan around, and using torreshike.com to keep it all straight.
- Your Secrets Are Still on GitHub engineering Force-pushing doesn't delete commits from GitHub. Dangling commits persist, and leaked keys are findable. Here's how I scan for them.
- Lemon Gooey Butter Cookies cooking My go-to cookie recipe for events and gifts, dialed in over years of baking. Gooey center, crispy edges, and a citrus flavor that goes way beyond basic lemon.
- Simple DI: Framework-less Inversion of Control in TypeScript engineering A practical pattern for dependency injection in TypeScript using factory functions, plain objects, and zero frameworks.
- Gear Review: ATK HY Free 13 Binding gear ATK HY 13 review after 2.5 weeks of backcountry skiing in Hokkaido. Full ATK HY vs Shift2 comparison with specs, touring and downhill performance, transition system breakdown, and who should buy which.
- Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies cooking My go-to chocolate chip cookie, made at least twice a month. Browned butter roux, dissolved sugars, no chill time, and a chewier, more flavorful cookie than the standard recipe.
- Multi-model LLM routing for Clanker engineering How Clanker's chatbot uses Haiku at the front door and Sonnet behind it for the heavy lifting, and why teaching it to stay quiet was the most important thing we did.
- Floating Promises in Serverless engineering How an unawaited promise can survive across lambda invocations on Vercel, and the debugging process to find and fix it.
- Structs & Libs engineering Why composition with structs and libraries beats deep inheritance in Solidity, and how the pattern works in production DeFi protocols.
- Sharing Life personal Thinking about social media and my memory of my friend Brian who was always pushing me to share more.
- Next-Gen Crypto UX: How We Made DeFi for the World engineering Reimagining crypto UX with Passkeys, Account Abstraction, and L2s to make DeFi accessible to everyone.
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