Journal

Dispatches.

Field notes from the build. Not tutorials. Not hot takes. Specific technical decisions, real deployment stories, and things that took longer to figure out than they should have.

Not live yet

The first entries are being written. This is a deliberate choice — I want the first post to be worth reading, not a placeholder. Estimated: May 2026.

In the queue

01

Infrastructure

Deploying IBM MAS 9.1 solo on OpenShift ROKS — from zero to EAAAIW 2026 in 3 weeks

How I got a 6-node enterprise cluster running as a CS student with no budget and no team.

02

AI systems

Why I chose LangGraph over a single-agent design for WisdomAI

The architectural decision that made 78 test cases possible.

03

Security tools

Building a stateless Windows forensics tool — the constraints that shaped AEGIS

No install. No registry writes. No external dependencies. Here's why that matters.