Usually Influx

A record of what I've been working on. Long-form essays and project write-ups; both are where I think things out at length.

Writing

Two Bits of Signal — On the second bit a trained system goes without: not how good a reading is, but how far to trust it. A star tracker carries it because the vacuum charges for its absence; a training loop folds it away, and the model cannot tell what it knows from what it doesn't.
Wedding Under Gunfire — On identity as trajectory and the watching that carries a self across change. Two anime films six years apart stage the mirror cases — the merger that consummates, the recognition that flickers and fails.
What the Lens Loses — On the difference between a single-axis read and a reconstruction. Most of what gets called measurement is the first kind, and its seams do not show.
The Walk — On cognition as walking and what that account makes equivalent. Self-recognition across a decade, recognition of someone known for twenty years, and grief — the same activity over different terrain.

Borb Cage — Borb Cage is a fidget toy: seven+ birds loose in a hanging bell cage, under a gravity you can tilt, drag, or shake. It runs as a single self-contained HTML file with no build step, no framework, and no network.
Corvidae DB — Embedded columnar database built in Rust with a split-engine architecture: ECS for writes, DataFusion over sealed Parquet for reads. The two engines each do what they do well, with an immutable boundary between them.
graph-neural-network — A Rust-native graph neural network built from first principles on a Bevy ECS substrate, exploring how graph topology and aggregation strategy affect long-range signal propagation.
influx-portfolio — My portfolio: long-form essays and project write-ups, written in Rust and deployed as static WASM to Codeberg Pages.