Buying a house at an auction
I recently bought a house at an auction. The process was astonishing.
Notes on systems, research, and machine learning.
I'm Will, a senior AI engineer at a London startup, building NLP and vision models for security applications. I like machine learning, building 'out there' ideas, and writing up what I find along the way.
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Party CSS
Make any HTML element party like a parrot with this simple CSS class that adds bobbing motion and rainbow colours.
Making Howler Emails
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets has a fun form of letter called a 'howler' that shouts at the recipient. By abusing what is possible in HTML email, we can recreate this effect digitally.
K9s Per-Cluster Configuration
A Bash script that gives every Kubernetes context its own K9s background colour, driven by a small YAML file. Keep each environment visually distinct and harder to accidentally destroy.
SimSPAD, an Avalanche Photodetector Simulator
Introduces SimSPAD, a C++ tool for simulating SiPM microcells, modelling nonlinearities, and sketching a path toward equalised optical links.
Tiny Packages, Big Challenges in NPM
Opinion piece on the micropackage plague in npm, using Jon Schlinkert's ANSI utilities and even is-even as examples of dependency bloat. I outline the perverse incentives, the operational pain, and a few cultural and tooling fixes I'd love to see.