Random
Curiosities, side interests, and half-formed ideas that don't fit anywhere else.
Chess
Lifelong obsession. I play daily on Lichess, study openings (Sicilian and Ruy Lopez), and occasionally enter online rapid tournaments. The game is an endless well of pattern recognition and humility.
Puzzles & Logic
Sudoku variants, logic grid puzzles, and constraint satisfaction problems. There's something deeply satisfying about reducing a problem to its core constraints and solving it systematically.
Strange Ideas
What if cities were designed like operating systems? What does a "compile error" look like in a legal contract? I keep a running list of metaphors between software and everything else.
Maps & Geography
Fascinated by how geography shapes culture, economics, and technology adoption. Spent time tracing fiber optic cable routes and their correlation with economic growth.
Reading List Overflow
Books I'll probably never finish but keep buying: history of cryptography, urban planning theory, cognitive science, and obscure programming language design papers.
Half-Formed Projects
A graveyard of interesting starts: a procedural city generator, a tool for collaborative worldbuilding, a chess variant played on a hexagonal board. Some may rise again.