Rebuilding lightning from a 5-shader frame study
The Dark Skies bolt used to be a line with noise on it. What five Shadertoy lightning shaders taught me one frame at a time, and the depth tricks nobody sees.
Spinslip: the failure-mode table behind a now-playing card
The card on my /now page reads Apple Music plays off my own database. The interesting part of the app feeding it is a five-row table deciding which server responses are allowed to throw listening history away.
Undertone: The Best Horror Movie Since Hereditary
Undertone is built on inversion — in the camerawork, the sound, the religious imagery — and it's so dense with detail that one viewing isn't enough. 5/5, go see it in theaters.
Project Hail Mary: A Fun Ride That Doesn't Quite Reach the Stars
The film adaptation of Andy Weir's sci-fi novel is a very entertaining blockbuster with great chemistry and humor, but restrained cinematography and a trimmed runtime keep it from joining the pantheon of adaptations that surpass their source material.
The Model Isn't the Agent: The Harness Is
The third post in my orchestration series. Why the wrapper around the model matters more than the model itself, the six patterns I actually use, and the bugs that pushed the system from MCP server to CLI to Claude Code skill.
I Turned My AI Review System on Itself — It Found 16 Issues
I pointed my multi-agent orchestration system at its own source code. Three AI agents debated the code that runs them. The results were uncomfortably accurate.
I Let 3 AI Agents Debate My Code — Here's What They Found
I pointed my multi-agent orchestration system at my own website and ran a debate-pattern code review. The results were genuinely useful — and a little humbling.
The Title Sequence That Assaults You Into Paying Attention
Gaspar Noé's Enter the Void opens with four minutes of pure visual violence. It's the best title sequence ever made.
The Terminal Aesthetic: Why Devs Love Monospace
An exploration of developer culture's obsession with terminal-inspired design and what it says about us.