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Make .local (mDNS) work in scratch/BusyBox Docker containers via a host resolver, without changing your images

Context I am running a small homelab powered by Raspberry Pi devices. By default, a Raspberry Pi advertises itself on your local network using mDNS. This allows you to reach it by using it’s hostname.

Aug 25, 2025 - 7 min read
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It won't happen to me, and other lies we tell ourselves

“Ten decisions shape your life, you’ll be aware of five, about.” It’s a lyric from The Strokes. It’s also a surprisingly deep description of the relationship between choice, circumstance, and luck.

Aug 24, 2025 - 11 min read
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I've been coding with AI for two years. Here is what I've learned

Over the past two years I’ve begun writing more and more code with the assistance of AI. I started out, like many people, by using the early versions of ChatGPT to generate little snippets of code.

Jul 17, 2025 - 21 min read
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The Silicon Divine: Searching for God in Latent Space

In the beginning, we searched for God in the stars. Our ancestors huddled around fires beneath vast night skies, tracing constellations between the shimmering stars, finding divine patterns in the heavens.

Mar 14, 2025 - 4 min read
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How strange it is to be anything at all

This evening, I was thinking about AI when one of my favorite songs came up on the playlist: Neutral Milk Hotel’s “In the Aeroplane Over the Sea”.

Jan 23, 2025 - 5 min read
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How LLMs are secretly reshaping the code of tomorrow, and what to do about it

The next revolutionary programming framework might be dead before you even discover it. AI coding assistants are reshaping software development practices in some unexpected ways.

Jan 6, 2025 - 10 min read
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From logic gates to language models

Recently I was watching my toddler son play with a copy of “Computer Engineering for Babies”. This interactive book has two buttons and a light bulb.

Jan 2, 2025 - 7 min read
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The day after the election

The day after the election, my toddler son wakes up at 6:00am. He’s bright and awake. He is happy. Mom and Dad stayed up late, doomscrolling the election news, but he doesn’t know any of this.

Nov 6, 2024 - 2 min read
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The expectation creates the result

Recently, I’ve been thinking a lot about artificial intelligence, the nature of human consciousness, and the challenging problem of alignment, both for artificial and human intelligences.

Oct 16, 2024 - 9 min read