blog posts
available via rss, and updated when i feel like it.
My Home Network Lab Notebook
October 22, 2024
Notes from setting up my homelab.
Why You Should Write an Emulator
September 14, 2024
How emulator development teaches vital reasoning skills.
Thoughts on Cities, Navigation, and Home
August 15, 2024
Or: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Biking in Boston
My Dream Handheld Computer
June 21, 2024
Nostalgia for the PocketCHIP, and my dream for a handheld tinkering device
DDS Tuning for ROS 2
May 17, 2024
Optimizing RTPS flows such as ROS 2 traffic over lossy networks.
Radios for Robots
April 16, 2024
For when you want your 'bots to roam outside the range of your apartment WiFi.
88x31 Buttons and Network Science
December 26, 2023
Applying principles of network science to those tiny little buttons.
In Defense of Really Long Merge Requests
July 27, 2023
Massive diffs aren't anything to fear.
So, You Want To Stream Lots Of USB Cameras At Once
June 21, 2023
Simple, right? Here's everything that will go wrong.
LDSP: low-level audio programming with rooted Android phones
June 17, 2023
Or, "How I Helped Author A Paper By Messing Around With Build Systems"
How To Reverse an Android App
June 16, 2023
I really wanted to unlock the 🎈 emoji without spending $25
Emulation Project - Call for Collaborators!
November 26, 2022
Something exciting I've had in the works, and how you can help!
Universal Hooks
January 19, 2022
Reimplementing some core React Hooks in userspace.
Building a text processing pipeline with Unified
January 03, 2022
Spellcheck, grammar check, Markdown, HTML, and more!
Tunneling, Routing, and NATting my way to smuggle IPv6 into Northeastern
September 06, 2021
Northeastern's dorms have good WiFi... for most people. But I'll always find a reason to tinker.
PocKey - RP2040, SH1107, and lessons from a failed project
August 29, 2021
I invested countless hours into this project and I have nothing to show for it but a story.
Building My Online Presence
August 26, 2021
My personal website, through the ages.
5F3759DF: An explanation of the world's most infamous magic number
March 17, 2021
Here's a famous function in the Quake III source code. Can you guess what it does?
How I Use Dokku
February 10, 2021
A one-stop-shop for building, deploying, and hosting apps on a budget.