Conrad Mearns

Computer Technologist ~ Software Engineering & event-driven systems

Now

  1. DIZZY Interstitial Architecture for redistributable systems. code, whitepaper
  2. Agentic goal ontology Goals, gaps and events. Likely pausing soon to focus on Cybernetics Ontologies and Classification systems first. Graph, evals
  3. Building a house I broke my photo album system - coming back soon.

Then — Odds and Ends

  1. rmsync Sync documents with a rooted reMarkable 2, two ways: markdown to native editable text, and Typst to PDF with your handwriting coming back as SVG overlays. Code
  2. Kerbal Space Program tools Tutorials and scripts for the Kerbal Operating System mod, and related mathematics for orbital flight control. Tutorials, Δv computer, orbit viewer
  3. Factorio mapper Share Factorio builds: a static zoomable web map and an in-game clip recorder. Code
  4. Turncoats A strategy game with Monte-Carlo bots, started in 2022. Read, play
  5. Entity-Relation Diagram Visualizer for LinkML An infinite-canvas ER diagram editor driven by LinkML. SvelteKit, Svelte Flow. Code

Then — Without Objective

  1. The Bitter Lesson and LLMs Against using The Bitter Lesson as the warrant for takes on where LLM code generation is headed. Read
  2. Structured Log Pipes Why the UNIX philosophy breaks down for large software, and a log-pipe approach to getting some of it back. Read
  3. Organizing Work Why organizing is personal, and why the usual systems and advice fall short. Read
  4. Scrap Loose notes on feature models, vibe coding and the layers of git. Read
  5. Notes for LLMs Working notes for LLM coding agents: UV scripts and testing the build. Read
  6. Parsing LLM Output Streams Notes from guiding a coding agent through parsing structured output as it streams. Read
  7. Without Objective Why I build little for myself, and why “gardening” knowledge never worked for me. Read

Then — Ramblings

  1. Exploring the Seeeduino XIAO Getting a Seeeduino XIAO blinking on NixOS: board packages, permission errors, and wishing it were all code and files. Read
  2. LaTeX Notes A pile of links and snippets for LaTeX: pdflatex, nix flakes, font sizes, minipages and letter-spacing. Read
  3. Redoing This Blog Upgrading Astro, trying Bun and Flowbite, and wondering how to get a 2,000-note Obsidian vault onto the site. Read
  4. Building a Basic NodeJS Server for NixOS A short start on a basic NodeJS server for NixOS, beginning from an Astro project. Read
  5. Making Router Hangers Designing wall hangers in Fusion for a router and access points, from the first print to the wall. Read
  6. Integrating with Obsidian Making Obsidian links and drag-and-drop images work with the markdown parser in Astro. Read
  7. Blogging Plans Toning down my expectations for the blog, and for making the site from scratch. Read
  8. New Year Why the coming year feels different, written the night before it started. Read
  9. Static Image Loading Working out how images work in Astro, to build a better gallery. Read
  10. Maps of Content and Objective Outlines Should Maps of Content and Objective Outlines be different things? The traits of each. Read
  11. UnifiedJS, Obsidian, and My Personal Website Automating Obsidian chores, and treating the vault as an external source for the website. Read