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Notes from the edge of the work.

Essays on the systems I build — backend architecture, AI pipelines, the occasional detour into why a thing I thought would take a day took three weeks.

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  1. APR 17, 2026

    Building hnswz: a vector database, in Zig

    What I learned building a local HNSW vector database in Zig — SIMD distance, a kqueue server, WAL durability, and beating hnswlib on my laptop.

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