Turn a video collection into a simulated broadcast or cable TV system
Owais
My Work
My Writing
Clear prose as a defense against vague and dishonest thought
A controlled language for writing unambiguous technical instructions
Units, dependencies, activation, process supervision, and everyday service management
Privilege modes, address spaces, system calls, and the boundary around the Linux kernel
Turning directed graphs into readable hierarchical diagrams
Finding and ranking snap candidates during interactive transforms
Generating and shrinking inputs that challenge general claims about code
Setting per-path behavior for line endings, diffs, merges, and archives
How GitHub detects repository languages and accepts overrides
Choosing graph storage and algorithms in Rust
A JSON-RPC interface between code editors and coding agents
Using overlapping three-character sequences for substring and fuzzy text search
Cache validation and conditional updates with ETag, If-None-Match, and If-Match
How hiding from exposure can preserve the shame it briefly relieves
Peers, cryptokey routing, handshakes, key rotation, and protocol boundaries
A framework for reasoning about an agent's memory, actions, and decision loop
Regenerating disposable implementations from durable intent and evaluations
Process selection, custom output, state codes, and portability across Unix systems
Cooperative cancellation for asynchronous and long-running work
How AI can support, displace, or bypass human deliberation
Connecting agents to capabilities and teaching them how to use those capabilities
Inwardness as a way of existing, choosing, and remaining committed
How understanding becomes a commitment that gives a life direction
How vectors represent data and make similarity search possible
Learned vector representations of meaning and similarity
Grounding language-model answers in retrieved source material
The settlement that created compensation processes and the TRC
Documenting the history and legacy of residential schools
The career, life, and legacy of the Yankees captain
Tangled's diskless, API-only AppView
An understandable consensus algorithm for replicated state machines
code to video with React
Relaxed Radix Balanced Vector
open-social publishing
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A walkthrough of parsing markdown with a Zig library
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v1.0.0-alpha.5
Dev Log 51: 2026-05-05
Firefox for Android users rejoice!
v1.0.0-alpha.3
v1.0.0-alpha
Dev Log 50: 2026-04-15
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Dev Log 48: 2026-04-11
Writer is now called Commonplace!
Dev Log 47: 2026-03-26
First release of the Twister API
Release Notes!
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For the F# advent calendar this year, I wrote a KDL parser.
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Owais gets a little emotional at the end
my arch nemesis is the act of release planning
procrastinating productively & v0.4.0 of beacon!
More pictures in this one!
Released v0.3.0 of Beacon
Feedback is a gift
In a funk
Easing my own expectations of myself with better planning
BLARGH
I need more eyes on my code
A little delayed, and a little short today.
Is my life just walking along abstract syntax trees now?
In which I try to write more
It's all CLIs & TUIs
Don't you just love sharing your work with folks?
Word of the day: READING
Socials
Personal Journal Club
Papers papers papers
Cognitive Architectures for Language Agents Recent efforts have augmented large language models (LLMs) with external resources (e.g., the Internet) or internal cont… arxiv.org/html/2309.02427Thinking—Fast, Slow, and Artificial: How AI is Reshaping Human Reasoning and the… People increasingly consult generative artificial intelligence (AI) while reasoning. As AI becomes embedded in daily tho… papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfmWarnings for pattern matching We examine the ML pattern-matching anomalies of useless clauses and non-exhaustive matches. We state the definition of t… www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-functional-programming/article/warnings-for-pattern-matching/3165B75113781E2431E3856972940347Retrieval-Augmented Code Generation: A Survey with Focus on Repository-Level App… Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have substantially improved automated code generation. While functio… arxiv.org/html/2510.04905v1Lost in the Middle: How Language Models Use Long Contexts While recent language models have the ability to take long contexts as input, relatively little is known about how well … aclanthology.org/2024.tacl-1.9/TDOP Pratt Work reported herein was supported in part at Stanford by the National Science Foundation under grant no GJ 992, and the… tdop.github.ioEmbeddingGemma: Powerful and Lightweight Text Representations We introduce EmbeddingGemma, a new lightweight, open text embedding model based on the Gemma 3 language model family. Ou… arxiv.org/abs/2509.20354OSF osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/jqxb6_v1Building reliable sim driving agents by scaling self-play Simulation agents are essential for designing and testing systems that interact with humans, such as autonomous vehicles… arxiv.org/abs/2502.14706Magic: The Gathering is Turing Complete $\textit{Magic: The Gathering}$ is a popular and famously complicated trading card game about magical combat. In this pa… arxiv.org/abs/1904.09828Understanding Artificial Neural Networks: Mysterianism about Known Mechanism is … Mysterianism is the idea that human cognition, mind, cannot be understood. Taking this concept and applying it to known … zenodo.org/records/20071869
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