The Life Cycle of Money
February 2026 36 min read
I wanted to understand how money actually works. Not the metaphors about printing presses or vague explanations about central banks, but the actual accounting entries, balance sheets, and institutional mechanics. Every explanation I found either treated money as a physical commodity or skipped over the details with hand-waving. So I traced the full lifecycle myself: where does legal authority to issue currency come from, how do central bank balance sheets expand, what happens when a commercial bank makes a loan, how do payment systems actually move money, and why do trade deficits result in foreigners holding Treasury securities. This is what I found.
Pandoc HTML Pipeline with Diagram Support
January 2026 9 min read
I needed a reliable way to convert Markdown to HTML using Pandoc with proper Mermaid and diagram rendering. The goal was to avoid introducing a static site generator or wrapper framework. The solution was a project-level defaults file combined with pandoc-ext-diagram, creating a predictable and portable document pipeline.
GPU ML Pipeline on AWS with Terraform
December 2025 6 min read
I built a Terraform module for running ML workloads on AWS GPU instances because spinning up infrastructure manually for each experiment was getting old. This post walks through the architecture decisions, the gotchas I hit with AWS Batch and Docker, and how it all fits together into something actually usable.
A Domain-Addressable Home PaaS
December 2024 10 min read
Turn a Raspberry Pi into your own personal cloud server accessible from anywhere on the internet. This guide shows you how to set up a fully functional platform for running your own services using your own domain name, with automatic security and minimal complexity. It's a practical, hands-on project that proves you don't need cloud subscriptions to host your own software, just open-source tools, a small device, and straightforward setup steps.
Alpine Linux Installation on Raspberry Pi
February 2024 15 min read
This guide walks through installing Alpine Linux on a Raspberry Pi 4, from image flashing through to a secure, containerized system ready for workloads. It covers the five-stage installation workflow, addressing ARM-specific bootloader configuration that often breaks systems upgraded from older Alpine versions. The result is a minimal base system with Docker, SSH hardening, firewall rules, and static networking configured.
Arch Linux Installation from Scratch
May 2023 11 min read
This guide provides a comprehensive walkthrough for installing Arch Linux from a live disk, configuring GRUB as the bootloader, and selecting the recommended filesystem. Beginning with booting from the live disk, users are guided through partitioning, mounting, and installing the base system. Configuration steps cover timezone, localization, network settings, and the installation of GRUB.
The Veil and the Spark
February 2023 19 min read
This exploration is not about theology but about ontology and consciousness architecture. Across mystical systems, the "Unknown God" functions as a model of ultimate source reality, while the "divine spark" represents consciousness embedded within material structure. The real inquiry concerns the barriers that prevent awareness from recognizing itself as originating beyond the systems it inhabits. What follows is an attempt to map ancient cosmological models onto modern frameworks of systems theory, cognitive science, and consciousness studies. The goal is not to validate mysticism, but to extract the architectural insights embedded within these traditions.