Building Ledger: A Personal Finance App Built With Claude
This site exists, per my own about page, as a vehicle for me to explore and organize things I’ve learned by writing about them. This post is about building L...
Hi, I’m Patrick! I’m an engineering leader at Meta in Seattle, where I’ve spent nearly a decade building high-scale advertising and guidance systems. Before that I worked as a software consultant, which gave me early exposure to a wide range of stacks and industries. I have a keen interest in international relations, national security, and nuclear policy, and at heart I’m a technologist who likes to tinker. More about my background can be found on the Work and About pages.
Recent posts
Modes of Nuclear Proliferation
Nations seeking a nuclear weapon follow a few set paths to ‘the bomb’ ; these paths are a product of a given geopolitical, security, and domestic environment...
Always/Never Paradox and Platform Trust & Safety
Always/never is a concept coined in the midst of the Cold War as the US grappled with how to safely manage its nuclear weapons while keeping them ready for i...
Adventures with TidByt
TitByt is this pixel based display with a set of dev tools allowing you to make your own apps for it. Basically it’s a fancy clock that you can program. I li...
Let’s talk Crypto[graphy]
Cryptography, while increasingly in the news, is not something most people think about affecting their day to day lives that said I believe cryptography is s...
Blockchain Basics
I’m not a blockchain guy. Having written that in the immutable ink of the internet I can have it forever held against me when we all eventually upload our co...
Nuclear Posture: A nuclear noobs intro
How do nations think about nuclear weapons?
What’s this all about?
“What is the last thing you taught yourself?”