Spicy Takes 🔥
← home- We made a water pipeline optimizer 300× faster A hardcoded Python prototype proved the model at 4.5 minutes per scenario. Reformulating it as a linear program and solving with HiGHS in Rust made it real-time. August 5, 2026
- I replaced a 600 KB chart library with a few divs ApexCharts was 92% of this site's JavaScript, rendering six rectangles. Here's what replacing it with build-time HTML looked like. August 5, 2026
- How this site works A static Astro site with no framework runtime, native dialogs for modals, and 15 KB of JavaScript total. The architecture, and why boring won. August 5, 2026