Hi, this is Richie. I'm a software engineer with a soft spot for robotics. On the long run, slowly inventing the universe one abstraction at a time, and this is where I keep the notes - writing, projects, bookmarks.
Recent Projects
- 2026
No-code trading OS — analyse the market, build and test your strategy, and run end-to-end automation with custom workflows, all with an AI copilot.
- 2026
Modular manufacturing OS - work instructions, quality, inventory, people, equipment - one connected platform.
- 2024
Author multilingual technical documentation with the Quarto pipeline, JavaScript-flavoured.
- 2024
Real-time messaging and integration backend for partner deliveries.
Recent Writings
- October 6, 2026 · Essay · 1 Min Read
Why is almost everything a tradeoff?
Pick any two good things and you usually cannot have both at full measure. Time or attention. Storag…
- September 19, 2026 · Essay · 1 Min Read
Is déjà vu a real memory event you could learn to trigger?
We sometimes get the feeling of having been here before. It fades fast, leaving nothing to point to…
- June 12, 2026 · Essay · 1 Min Read
Inherited fault: scars, sin, and what crosses over
Two traditions say the same unsettling thing: you inherit a burden you never chose. Biology calls it…
- June 5, 2026 · Essay · 1 Min Read
Does the brain always take the cheapest fix?
The brain seems to make the smallest change that solves the problem in front of it, and to spend tha…
Recent Bookmarks
- June 23, 2026 · Stanford News
- May 3, 2026 · St. John's College
- April 15, 2026 · Jordan B Peterson
- March 28, 2026 · unprompted
- March 26, 2026 · Jane Street
Interests
- Distributed systems and their messes
- Teaching a bot to trade
- How brains learn
- Why we believe what we believe
- Personality and the wiring behind human behaviour