I build close to the machine.

Third-year software engineering student at QUT in Brisbane. Systems and performance work in C, and writeups of what broke.

Four workers / disjoint tiles / one shared read-only input

Writing

01
Amazon's anti-tokenmaxxing memo is a measurement problem, not an AI one
An internal memo tells engineers to be pickier about AI. The real story is what happens when you pick the wrong metric.
27 Oct 2026
02
The gigawatt question, and why datacentre maths is not software maths
A simulation says a 1GW AI datacentre loses money in 98% of outcomes. The interesting part is which assumption does the damage.
26 Oct 2026
03
One million lines of firmware, or three hundred of assembly
A UEFI flaw hits a huge number of servers in the same week someone argues for replacing firmware with 300 lines. The two stories are related.
25 Oct 2026
04
Starting a public notebook
Why I am writing this in public instead of keeping it in a folder on my laptop.
20 Oct 2026

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