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I am a self-taught thinker with a bunch of thoughts.

A public notebook for ideas worth keeping, questioning, or politely arguing with after the tab is closed.

2026-08-19 · introduction / about

I write software the way I used to watch satellites: from the ground up

A short introduction to what I do, where I came from, and why this blog is a tracelog of work and thinking.

2026-08-19 · observability / react / opentelemetry

We put OpenTelemetry in a React app. Here's what broke first.

Moving a fintech React SPA off vendor RUM onto OpenTelemetry taught us that the browser is where every awkward detail meets.

2026-08-21 · orca / ai-agents / developer-workflow

VS Code was where I coded. Orca is where I run agents.

AI agents stopped fitting inside my editor terminal. Orca gave them a workspace I can actually see and steer.

2026-08-21 · orca / ai-agents / engineering-practice

I don't want quiet agents. I want a trace.

Verbose agent reasoning is not noise when it lets me inspect, steer, and learn from the work.