Writing
Things I figured out, wrote down, and decided to share.
IRS forms ship as interactive AcroForm PDFs, which means every box on a 1040 already knows exactly where it sits. Here's how I used that to stamp values onto real tax forms.
A freelance project taught me the gap between real real-time transcription and just fast enough, and the formula that made rolling chunk transcription work.
Third set of notes from building Samvad. How the Coverage Report gets assembled and what it took to ship it — including a timeline the model doesn't get a vote on.
A follow-up on building Samvad. I went back to fix the three things I said I'd change, and ended up rebuilding retrieval from scratch — and pulling the model out of a job I never should have given it.
Notes from building Samvad: a four-agent pipeline that answers questions about Indian news coverage and shows its sources. What worked, what surprised me, and what I'd change.
A short reflection on Agency, Consistency, and Ego — a simple framework that’s helped me shape goals and momentum, and might do the same for you.
Step-by-step guide to deploying a Golang backend as an Azure Function using a custom runtime.
How to configure a custom domain purchased from Namecheap with Azure Static Web Apps.