Made my first commits and push to GitHub on Friday and haven’t stopped since. For my engineering counterparts it’s a daily thing, but I felt like a hacker diving into terminal for the first time. Thanks to Andrii Nikitiuk, I’ve been using Claude to query directly from the Tumblr database and analyze it myself. Things…

My Sabbatical

I’ve been back from sabbatical for a few weeks now, and before the experience fades into “normal life,” I wanted to make this post. My time away was a mix of rest, curiosity, routine, and rediscovery. I spent a lot of my sabbatical simply moving through my hometown of New York as a tourist: I…

On Words & AI

I couldn’t imagine sharing something creative as mine that was made by AI. Beyond meme images, at least. From a writing standpoint, I take words very seriously. Every word carries its own depth and nuance. Cultural, historical, emotional. Words flex, bend, and surprise. They come alive in unexpected pairings, in the cadence of syllables, in…