Explore
This is more or less a human readable (but non-exhaustive) sitemap. This website is supposed to be partly a digital garden, so it might be helpful for the gardener (that’s me) to point out some trailheads. You should look at the main page if you haven’t already, of course, for a brief introduction. The next major page is about me, which is really a brief autobiography of me, the human. The other major pages are the now page, which is a brief recap on what I am doing right now—I don’t mean at this immediate moment, but moreso the overall stuff I am focused on at this point in my life. Lastly, my CV is available if you are interested.
If you are instead interested in how this website itself was made, you might enjoy the colophon , wherein I detail all of the elaborate and non-standard technologies that go into this website.
Some miscellany includes a page about how I do my computing, as well as a FAQ page, which is more of an advice page.
Instead of information about me, for a sense of the things I'm interested in, you might peruse the sidebar, where I’ve curated a few pages on this website across my primary interests—broadly construed, that’s hacking (aka programming for the uninitiated), mathematics, and everything else which is fun.
I also try to write occasionally, oftentimes about technical topics but also possibly just about my life and cool things happening. Here are the last 5 posts I’ve written:
- Universal constructions and the universal property of quotientsJanuary 4, 2026
- Postscript on HackMITSeptember 22, 2025
- How to set up Kindle Scribe for reading ChineseSeptember 13, 2025
- Anatomy of a NixOS moduleAugust 31, 2025
A not-quite-comprehensive primer on the NixOS module system.
- Three Isomorphism Theorems in Linear AlgebraJune 19, 2025
A proof of the first three isomorphism theorems for linear algebra in particular.
And here is an archive of every post.
That’s pretty much the majority of good starting places to explore this site. Like I said, it’s supposed to be some sort of digital hypertext garden, so hyperlinks within pages may take you to branching paths yet unforeseen. Happy trails!