7 min

What Project Hail Mary Does Best

Project Hail Mary is very good at one of the hardest things in science fiction: making an unknown lifeform feel genuinely new. The best thing in the novel, to me, is not the ending, and not even the friendship at its center. It is the discovery of Astrophage.

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14 min

What to Think About Before Measuring Landing Page Conversions

Practical lessons from rewriting a KPI definition document 5 times. Start with KGI, write hypotheses first, avoid the bounce rate trap, and speak business impact in dollars.

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6 min

Migrating My Blog

Rebuilt my existing blog with Next.js 16 + MDX + Tailwind CSS v4. Auto WebP compression on image paste, build-time OGP generation, zero-runtime SSG—technical choices designed to let me focus on writing.

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10 min

Building an AWS Serverless Pipeline for Speaker Diarization and Transcription at ~$1 per Video

Build a speaker diarization and transcription pipeline with AWS Step Functions + Lambda. ~$2/month fixed cost, ~$2.3 for an 8-hour video — about 5x more cost-efficient than AWS Transcribe.

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3 min

Claude Code Skill for GTM JavaScript — No More ES5 Compilation Errors

GTM Custom HTML tags only support ES5 JavaScript. I built a Claude Code Skill to bridge the gap between AI-generated ES6+ code and GTM's constraints.

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