Writing
Technical notes on building things at the intersection of design, AI, and code.
Review Draft: Teaching Clarence Not to Fail Quietly
A sharper draft about Clarence, memory, governance, trust, and what fails when an AI system becomes working infrastructure instead of a chat demo.
Designing Decision Boundaries for AI Agents: Clarence as an Agentic UX Case Study
How Clarence defines what an AI collaborator can decide, what it must verify, and where human judgment stays non-negotiable.
Working With Clarence
How I use Clarence for UX critique, creative prototyping, and system workflow without handing off judgment.
Why Clarence Needed a System Wiki
Why important system knowledge could not stay trapped in chat logs, repo docs, and a vault that could point at the wrong place.
Why SensorSynthFM Needed a Wiki Before It Needed More Features
Why SensorSynthFM had a truth problem, not an idea problem, and how a project wiki keeps the thesis-demo work honest.
Implementing Pretext: Solving a 30-Year Browser Problem on a Portfolio Site
How I used Cheng Lou's new 15KB library to replace DOM-based text measurement with Canvas-powered character-level layout, and why it matters for interaction design.