Blog

Blog

Inference becomes instruction, retrieval becomes truth. The gap between what was meant and what is produced grows stranger by the day. This blog follows that tension. Part of it comes from my work as a product engineer, tracing how systems behave, how meaning drifts, and how structure fails under load. Part of it comes from the writers and thinkers who understood these fractures long before the software arrived.

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Deforestation in Rondônia, Brazil: mapping burn scars

Sentinel-2 pre/post-fire analysis shows how pasture expansion and dry-season burns reshape Rondônia. A dNBR pass reveals the brutal pattern behind tidy RGB farmland.

How old is Haarlem? Mapping buildings by age

A quick BAG pass colors Haarlem by build year, showing medieval cores, 19th-century belts, and postwar infill in a single sweep.

Generating walking tour videos for YouTube

A data driven video system that turns Kunstlijn artist data into short, cinematic walking route videos from Haarlem Station and beyond.

The Wrong Way Bridge (Vermont)

A 1950 bridge bends the road away from the river before crossing it, a relic of an abandoned Route 15 extension and a valley reshaped by floods.

What’s the Best Readwise Workflow?

A calm Readwise-to-Obsidian flow: read without interruption, capture clean text, let notes stay messy, and use LLMs to cluster highlights into future context windows.