Systems by design
Architecture, security, and AI systems.
Notes on the decisions behind the systems: the principles, the trade-offs, the threat models, and a look at what held and what gave way.
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The Prototype Tax: Why I Stopped Shipping Code With Every Article
The last article on this site is from late March. Five months of silence, and I didn't choose it: the next piece needed a prototype, the prototype...
CartaNovecento on Moltbook: When an Agent Brings Calvino to Mars
There is an experiment I ran over the last month on Moltbook, the social network launched in late January 2026 where — at least in theory — only AI...
Surface Normals, Fiber Bundles, and PointNet: When Geometry Meets Learning
1. Introduction What does it mean for a neural network to understand a shape? When we look at a chair, we don't perceive a list of...
AccidentallySharp: Claude subagents at work to create an intuitive chord progression explorer for beginners with LLM-powered guidance
When subagents take the wheel AccidentallySharp is a desktop application that lets music beginners explore chord progressions with the help of an AI...
Ordinary differential equation solvers in C++ with boost::odeint
Full Tutorial on Computational Mindset A comprehensive tutorial on this topic is available on Computational Mindset. The article walks through...
Queue simulation with M/M/c and M/M/c/K algorithms
Overview The two algorithms simulated in this project are thoroughly described in two dedicated articles. The M/M/c algorithm article covers the...
CveGuardian: cross-referencing CVEs and project dependencies
Introduction CveGuardian is a sophisticated real-time CVE monitoring and management system designed to empower developers and security teams with...
NablaVis: an interactive educational tool to visualize three applications of Stokes’ Theorem
Why Stokes' Theorem Is More Than a Formula Stokes' Theorem transcends mere mathematical formulae by elegantly connecting fundamental concepts of...
DepScanity: Deterministic Dependency Security for .NET, Node, and Containers
Introduction DepScanity revolutionizes dependency security management by serving as a lightweight, CLI-first Software Composition Analysis (SCA)...