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Writing

Essays on AI infrastructure and observability, plus older pieces on cities, politics, and whatever I was reading at the time.

AI infrastructure & agents

  1. Amanat: Privacy-First Data Governance for Humanitarian NGOs
  2. DreamMeridian: GeoAI on a Raspberry Pi
  3. Lean, Mean, AI-Powered Machine: Why Nintendo Switch 2 Ports Are Defying Expectations
  4. DreamStreets: GPT-OSS-Powered Geospatial Insights
  5. AskStreets: Querying Street Networks with GraphRAG

Observability & tooling

  1. Kassandra: An AI Performance Testing Agent for Merge Requests
  2. Ticks by Telnet: Load Testing IBM Z Mainframe Terminals with py3270 and Locust
  3. Open Zesame: Dual Development with Z Open Automation Utilities and z/OS Open Tools
  4. Go-ing Native: Porting Grafana k6 to z/OS with Go
  5. Swarming Stressed Servers: Open-Source Load-Testing on z/OS Mainframes with Locust

Essays & reflections

  1. What Makes a Bookstore a 'Third Place'? I Used AI to Find Out
  2. Carceral Contagion: Modeling Incarceration as an Epidemic
  3. Sacred Geometry: On Directing 'Disgraced'
  4. All the Difference | My UNICEF Winternship: Part III
  5. Go the Distance | My UNICEF Winternship: Part II
  6. The Roads Yet Taken | My UNICEF Winternship: Part I
  7. The African-American Mecca You've Never Heard of
  8. Red, Black, Cyberpunk | 5 Awesome Retro Gadgets
  9. Boiling Blood and Four Years of Fear
  10. Making Bigots Bearable: Worth The Effort?
  11. A Reaction To Sexual Assault Survivors' Heartbreaking Stories On Twitter
  12. A Short Reflection On Being Brown This Election