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  1. Fri Jun 26 2026

    Catculator — training a 0.5M model to perform addition

    Building a tiny autoregressive calculator in JAX, one component at a time — SGD → Adam → RoPE → tied embeddings → masked loss — and what each change actually buys you.

    • JAX
    • TRANSFORMER
    • ML
  2. Sat Feb 14 2026

    From console clicks to Terraform — Quarkle's AWS journey

    Three eras of running Quarkle on AWS — clicking around the ECS console, scripting EC2 with bash, and finally putting everything in Terraform. What made each transition necessary.

    • AWS
    • TERRAFORM
    • DEVOPS
  3. Sun Nov 23 2025

    Flying an off-the-shelf drone with an Xbox controller

    Connecting a BetaFPV AIR75 to my laptop via a Radiomaster Nano transmitter with an ELRS module, so I could fly it with an Xbox controller. The control chain came together in about a week. The video chain didn't.

    • DRONES
    • ELRS
    • BETAFLIGHT