Why I Built This Site

I wanted a single place that works as a portfolio, a public notebook, and a second brain — without feeling like a random blog.

The split I landed on:

• Astro powers the polished, career-facing pages: home, about, projects, writing, resume, and data-driven charts.
• Quartz powers the notes section — an Obsidian-compatible digital garden with backlinks, tags, graph view, and search.

Principles

1. Correctness-first performance is the throughline of the content.
2. A clear public/private boundary. Only content marked visibility: public is ever published, so work-adjacent notes stay safe.
3. Local-first authoring. Everything is Markdown in Git; notes are authored in Obsidian and rendered by Quartz.

What’s here

• Projects like vectorizing 64-bit division
• Research notes on SIMD integer arithmetic
• A growing digital garden of engineering notes

This is a living site. Expect rough edges in the notes — that’s the point.