Everything that tried to break my chess server
Part 2 of the chessm8 story: the races I caught by attacking my own system, a board that lied to players, and launch-night bots hunting for credentials.
Blog
Long-form notes on AI infrastructure, agents, Cloud, and engineering at Microsoft.
Long-form notes on AI infrastructure, Azure & Cosmos DB, AI agents in production, and engineering culture — mostly from the trenches at Microsoft.
For AI safety / paper reviews see /ai-safety. For travel see /travel. For open questions see /open-problems.
2026
Two players, one clock, zero trust: building a distributed chess server on the BEAM
Part 1 of the chessm8 story: why one Elixir process per game, server-owned clocks, exactly-once ratings, snapshot resurrection, and one deliberate machine.
oss-model-playbook
Enterprise playbook for running open-weight LLMs on on-prem Kubernetes, AKS, and Azure AI Foundry — model selection, capacity planning, gateway, security, and TCO.
Vector engineering for agents
Deep dive on embeddings, ANN, hybrid retrieval, agent memory, evaluation, and production ops for RAG and AI agents.
Why this site exists
Notes I keep because I'd rather write things down once — AI infra, paper reviews, travel, and books.