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.