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September 6, 2026

I Kept Switching Off My Own Server. So I Took the Power Button Away From systemd.

A flat wedge of a power button in the corner of a mini PC, a systemd default that shuts the machine down on one accidental touch, and the long-press setting that looks like the fix but loses a race against your own firmware. Includes the evdev daemon that replaced it, and the two bugs that only showed up on real hardware.

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March 27, 2026

I Taught LLMs to Generate 3D Models. Frontier Models Barely Beat Open Weights.

What happens when you point today's best LLMs at a niche code generation problem? Five months of building Chat3D — an agent-based chat-to-CAD pipeline — revealed that on domain-specific tasks, model size matters far less than training data. A 120B open-weight model matched Opus at 1/5 the cost.

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February 10, 2026

Does Your AI Know How You Write Code?

What I've Built with Kiro #2: From months of spec-driven development to a shareable set of battle-tested engineering rules. Why telling an AI what to build is the easy part — and how coding standards bridge the gap.

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February 1, 2026

Resumes Flatten You. I Built Something That Doesn't.

What I've Built with Kiro #1: An AI-powered portfolio that proves expertise instead of claiming it. Exploring how spec-driven development and deep knowledge extraction create a portfolio that talks back.

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