May 03, 2026
Inside Zepp's Algorithm Suite
Decompilation of the Zepp (Huami) app reveals exact body composition formulas, six on-device ML models, a full HRV frequency-domain analyzer, and the Charge readiness pipeline.
March 01, 2025
Building AM: A Personal AI That Knows Me
The architecture and philosophy behind building a personal AI system with persistent memory, autonomous capabilities, and deep integration into daily digital life.
February 20, 2023
World Mirrors: Digital Twins and the Future of Industrial Intelligence
Inside the revolution of digital twins—perfect digital mirrors of physical systems that predict, optimize, and control complex operations from factories to cities, powered by platforms like Palantir’s Foundry.
January 15, 2023
Content-Addressable Storage: The Foundation of Decentralized Systems
How content-addressed storage systems like IPFS, Git, and cryptographic hash functions are reshaping data integrity, distribution, and decentralized application architecture.
January 15, 2016
The Day Cryptsy Died: Losing Altcoins to an Exchange Collapse in 2016
In January 2016, Cryptsy vanished overnight taking millions in customer funds. I lost a portfolio of altcoins I'd been speculating on since 2013 — back when buying Bitcoin meant wiring MoneyGrams to buy Second Life Lindens first.
June 01, 2014
Soylent and the DIY Nutrition Forum Scene of 2014
Before Soylent was a VC-backed startup shipping bottles to 7-Eleven, it was a chaotic forum thread where hundreds of people were mixing their own gray sludge from bulk powders and sharing blood test results in public Google Docs.