~ $ whoami → software engineer
Invert
the tree.
Find the
roots.
Part workshop, part notebook: the products I build, the systems I pull apart, and the writing that comes out of both.
Closures: why your functions remember things
A function that should be gone keeps handing you the right answer. That's a closure — and once you see what it's actually holding onto, a dozen everyday patterns stop looking like magic.
read →Where your program lives once you hit run
A program on disk is just a file. Running it makes the kernel build a process around it: an address space with four regions — text, data, heap, stack — and a control block it keeps for itself. Here's the whole map, one region at a time.
read →I built a zip viewer nobody asked for
I needed one file out of a 4 GB archive. My Mac insisted on extracting all of it. So I built the tool that reads the index instead.
read →Grizzly
A native macOS & iOS app that lets you browse a ZIP like it's already unpacked — open a multi-gigabyte archive instantly, Quick Look any file, and extract only what you need.
invertr.ee
This site — a personal home built like a program. Static, fast, and themed by a single invert() toggle.