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Journal
Field notes from building things — write-ups and the occasional video log.
#COMPUTING_HISTORY#DEVELOPER_TOOLING#CODE_STYLE
The punch card from 1928 that still formats your code
Your linter's 80-character limit is the width of an IBM punched card from 1928 — and the 24 rows beside it come from something else entirely. A short history of a number that outlived all three of its reasons.
Archive
Designing the Game State for AI
An LRU Cache Is a Trade, Not an Upgrade
TypeSafe AI's Jev Model Returns Typed Decisions for Game Logic
Adding the Gate Experiment to Daystorm’s Training to Catch Memorization
Poison Pills, Retry Budgets, and Why Your Backoff Needs Jitter
Debugging LocalRAG's Embedding Pipeline: When ChromaDB Returned Empty Results
Turning Menu Photos Into Structured JSON: The Six-Stage OCR Pipeline That Handles Multi-Column Layouts
Pinned Skills, Broken Builds: What Happens When Upstream Changes Without Warning
Daystorm's Per-Channel Staleness Budgets, Enforced in Code
Building a Zero-Install CAD Engine in the Browser
How I Estimated Vehicle Speed From Traffic Video Using YOLOv8 and DeepSort
