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Featured dispatches

• Autonomous Research with AI: "Not all who wander are lost" — can a UAV learn a city by heart, with no GPS, no map on board, just a $4 flight computer? Yes! An AI agent running an autoresearch loop of 81 experiments ($364) found a special-purpose neural memory architecture that 'remembers' an exact geo-location from an in-flight daytime picture of B… Note · Autoresearch · Jul 21, 2026 · on this site
• Autonomous Research with AI: "The snuggle is real" — evolving quadcopter frame geometry for Wh/km, with Claude as an occasional co-designer An autoresearch loop — a genetic algorithm over fourteen genes of the real, open-source Source One V6 plate drawings, flown through six simulated weather scenarios, with Claude sitting in every few g… Note · Autoresearch · Jul 13, 2026 · on this site
• Autonomous Research with AI: "Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results! I know 198 things that won't work." — can an autonomous research loop find the secret of Kryptos K4? Not solved yet: in 19.7 hours, an AI agent running an autoresearch loop on K4 — the last unread message on Jim Sanborn's Kryptos sculpture at the CIA, 97 carved letters with only 24 of them known — h… Note · Autoresearch · Oct 18, 2026 · on this site
• Autonomous Research with AI: "Which city in Paris are you staying in?" — can a loop teach a phone-sized small language model to ask frontier-quality questions? An AI agent running an autoresearch loop — 96 experiments across every lever we could find: prompting, retrieval, decoding, pipeline, fine-tuning, preference-learning, reinforcement-learning, adversa… Note · Autoresearch · Apr 30, 2026 · on this site
• Autonomous Research with AI: "We don't write the rules. We just discover them." — how an agent searches for the groundrule, and what makes the loop different Autoresearch on a job-shop scheduling problem dressed up as a lunch rush: one grill, one shared range, sequencing as the only lever, and an AI agent that proposes candidate rules, runs them across si… Note · Autoresearch · Jun 5, 2026 · on this site

Greatest Hits

• Freakonomics Experiments Let a coin decide — then measure what happens. 20,000 subjects · 85% retention over 9 months As senior engineering consultant, I designed and shipped the infrastructure for a truly randomized, multi-month, large-scale field experiment for Prof. Steve Levitt of Freakonomics — the engine behin… Note · Jul 29, 2026 · on this site
• OneMonth Inc. From zero to shipping code in a month. Highly profitable from day one, and still selling · $2.5M raised My technical co-founder run: I designed and wrote a best-selling "programming for non-programmers" video course that got complete beginners shipping real code in a month — earning us a spot at Y Comb… Note · Jul 29, 2026 · on this site
• Pivotal Labs, New York City Coaching teams to ship better, faster. 11 client teams coached Working as senior technology consultant, I coached client teams to ship better products faster through lean experiments, pair-programming and test-driven development. One team used live data from 250… Note · Jul 29, 2026 · on this site
• MobileCamps (NYC, SF, LA) A BarCamp for mobile enthusiasts back in 2007 in New York and 2008 in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Note · Apr 1, 2025
• Meine größten Stärken – My Strongest Talents Restorative: People exceptionally talented in the Restorative theme are adept at dealing with problems. They are good at figuring out what is wrong and resolving it. Note · Apr 1, 2025
• I Am Mr. Bubbles! I finally can share this with you. Here is what I've been up to when I came back from work while still in New York. Note · Sep 26, 2016

Personal Writing

• My mothers death in 2018 My motherJoyce Rondeau, Mother died after a long and courageous battle with cancer. Note · Apr 1, 2025
• Your amazing YOUness Your YOUness is what makes you a one-in-a-billion event in all of time and space. Note · Apr 1, 2025
• Wings of Desire I was 20 years old, the year was 1999 and I had just moved to New York City. Note · Mar 10, 2014
• Gablonzer Strasse 23 I remember the dollops of smoking tobacco placed on the stumps of the trees that until this morning had surrounded the house I grew up in. The cherry, walnut, chestnut and hazelnut. Note · Mar 10, 2014

Personal projects

• Human as Sensor: Call-Based Reporting for C2 | European Defense Tech Hackathon – Berlin 2026 Call-Based Reporting for C2 A civilian or service member reports an incident through an ordinary phone call. Calls can be handled in DE, EN and other major languages, then converted into structured text and data for a C2 environment. Note · Jul 11, 2026
• Quasi: "Say it, hear it done" — an experiment in computing without a screen Say it, hear it done. We spend ten or more hours a day staring at screens. Quasi is my small experiment in computing without one: you speak into a pocket recorder while your phone stays locked in your bag, and a few short… Note · Oct 12, 2026 · on this site
• Mosey: Walks that start themselves — the world's longest-lived people don't exercise. They simply get up and move every 20 minutes. Walks that start themselves. The longest-lived people don't exercise — they get up and move every twenty minutes. I built Mosey to put that nudge into a Mac workday: after twenty minutes at the desk, your walking pad starts on i… Note · Oct 12, 2026 · on this site
• Unblah Know when to speak up — and when to zip it. Ever leave a meeting wondering if you talked too much — or never got a word in? I built Unblah to quietly show your talk-time as it happens, so you can catch yourself in the moment and hit the balanc… Note · Jul 8, 2022 · on this site
• Pudding Research Connect the dots, follow the money, find the story. Another open-source OSINT tool I made, this one for Ethereum token ecosystems. Pick any token and instantly see where the money flows — who's moving it, to whom, and how much. The biggest players and… Note · Sep 25, 2022 · on this site
• Pudding Proof you actually wrote it. In a world that assumes everything's written by AI, I made Pudding to let you prove the words are yours. It captures your writing as it actually happened — every edit, pause and rewrite — so you can … Note · Nov 14, 2025 · on this site
• JamGPT ChatGPT, one keystroke away. JamGPT gets you to ChatGPT the instant you need it — one keystroke from whatever app you're in, with no tab-hunting or logging back in. I kept my go-to prompts a click away for the things I do over a… Note · Mar 8, 2023 · on this site
• Streamline Brain-dump first. Organize later. I wanted a calm, blank space to get my thoughts out before the day's noise set in — no menus, no formatting, no friction. As you write, Streamline surfaces your existing notes so a morning brain-dump… Note · Oct 28, 2022 · on this site
• Algorand Ballet Watch the money move on-chain. My open-source OSINT tool for the Algorand blockchain. See who a wallet really deals with: drop in any account and watch its activity unfold as a map you can explore — follow the connections, spot th… Note · Nov 24, 2021 · on this site

Everyday Experiments

• Pageturner Hack for Kindle – Experiment (W21 Mini-Project) TLDR; After getting frustrated, angry even, with how awkward and unreliable the "touch-screen-to-flipt-to-next-page" on the Kindle Classic is, I experimented with different ways to emulate a physical… Note · Apr 1, 2025
• How To Make Better and Faster Investment-Decisions With Lean Experiments As many of you know by now, I strongly believe in the effectiveness of using the scientific method to validate business ideas. Note · Apr 1, 2025
• Happier Through Bright Light! My Winter S.A.D Well-Being Research – 1 Year of Light Therapy Prototypes Hey there, Alexis here! Note · Oct 17, 2018
• Microgreen Growth Experiment: Natural Sunlight vs. Indoor LED Light This was an experiment I ran over the summer. Note · Sep 4, 2018
• How To Make Big Ass Bubbles I've compiled the following giant bubble solution recipe and instructions after months of trial-and-error, testing dozens of recipes, ingredients etc. Note · Aug 28, 2014

Obsidian plugins

• Extract PDF Highlights Turn your PDF highlights into notes. 319,102 downloads I was tired of re-typing the passages I'd highlighted while reading. Now you open a marked-up PDF in Obsidian, click once, and every highlight, underline and note lands in a tidy page-ordered note yo… Note · Dec 28, 2020 · on this site
• Extract PDF PDF in, Markdown out. 77,003 downloads This one frees the text trapped inside a PDF. One click turns a document into clean, editable notes — headings, paragraphs and lists intact — so you can quote it, rework it, and weave it into your ow… Note · Dec 21, 2020 · on this site
• Journey Find the story hiding in your notes. 62,142 downloads You've collected hundreds of notes — but where's the story in them? I built Journey to trace a path between any two ideas in your vault and hand you a ready-made outline, surfacing connections you'd … Note · Jan 28, 2021 · on this site
• Footnotes Footnotes without the bookkeeping. 25,808 downloads I wanted to add a footnote without breaking my train of thought. One hotkey drops a numbered marker and its note at the bottom of the page, and the same key jumps you between the two — no counting, n… Note · Feb 27, 2021 · on this site