The archive
Articles, essays and extremely detailed tangents
Everything I've written, plus a few pieces my editor (me) probably should have questioned. Filter by topic or search the archive.
I Explained Recursion to My Mother and She Called the Doctor
A field guide to explaining computer science to people who love you but would very much like you to speak human. Contains one metaphor involving pastel de feira.
My blog (aka this website)
June 18, 2026 · 1 min read
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Your Model Is Not Thinking, It Is Doing Very Confident Autocomplete
What actually happens inside a transformer, minus the hype and minus the math anxiety. Written for engineers who nod politely in AI meetings.
Written at 2am, obviously
May 2, 2026 · 1 min read
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With Great Uptime Comes Great Responsibility
On-call rotations, radioactive spiders, and why every incident postmortem is secretly an origin story. Yes, this is a Spider-Man piece. No, I will not apologize.
Peer-reviewed by nobody
April 11, 2026 · 1 min read
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The Physics of Web-Shooters: An Engineering Review
Tensile strength, swing dynamics and cartridge capacity. I did the math so you don't have to, and honestly the numbers are not terrible.
Unsolicited but rigorous
March 7, 2026 · 1 min read
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CSS Is a Science and I Have the Failed Experiments to Prove It
Six layout hypotheses, four rejected, one that worked for reasons I still cannot fully justify in a code review.
Lab notebook, Sorocaba branch
February 14, 2026 · 1 min read
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How a Rocket Decides Not to Explode
Flight software, redundancy and the beautiful paranoia of aerospace engineering – explained by someone whose worst deploy only took down a staging server.
Read by three friends and my cat
January 23, 2026 · 1 min read
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Debugging Is Just the Scientific Method With Worse Lighting
Hypothesis, experiment, observation, despair, coffee, conclusion. A short defense of engineers as practicing scientists.
Written between two sprints
December 5, 2025 · 1 min read
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I Let an LLM Review My Pull Request for a Week
It caught two real bugs, invented one library, and complimented my variable names. A mostly fair performance review.
Empirical, sort of
November 19, 2025 · 1 min read
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Time-Zone-Driven Development: Notes From UTC-3
Building with distributed teams from Sorocaba, where the standups are early, the deploys are late, and daylight saving is thankfully not my problem anymore.
Filed from São Paulo time
October 2, 2025 · 1 min read
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