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Locke

Relearning how to build in the 5th transformation. Code, science, and what holds up when the tools think back.

stack Rust, Python, TypeScript, Terraform

focus ML, Data Infrastructure, DevTools, DX

sections

Build Log

Projects from problem to shipped code. Architecture decisions, what broke, what actually worked. Technical — not tutorials.

Thinking Out Loud

Engineering opinions with reasoning attached. Tool choices, workflow philosophy, when to build vs. when to use what exists. The arguments behind the commits.

Science & Systems

Computation meets the physical world. Patterns that cross domains — algorithms from physics, data structures that mirror biological systems, math underneath engineering.

Field Notes

Short. A bug → a wrong assumption exposed. A flag that changed a workflow. A paper that reframed a problem. Dispatches before the insight gets cleaned up.

recent

Build Log

I stopped opening browser tabs to check CI

How a terminal-native GitHub Actions dashboard went from friction to Homebrew tap — Rust, ratatui, and the architecture decisions that held up.

2026-03-19

8 min
Thinking Out Loud

fzf over built-in fuzzy search

Why composability beats feature completeness. The case for delegating to tools that already exist.

2026-03-22

5 min
Field Notes

ANSI conceal codes and fzf

fzf strips ANSI conceal sequences. The workaround, and what it taught about assumptions in Unix pipelines.

2026-03-25

3 min