JOURNAL

Writing & notes

Occasional notes on engineering, design, and the things I build.

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August 14, 2026 · 4 min

Why We Didn't Build Our AI Platform Around AI (Yet)

Every startup says "AI-powered" — here's the honest version: at HiTerra, AI is a thin, deliberate layer on a boring, solid foundation, and the heaviest AI work is deferred on purpose until we have data worth training on.

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June 23, 2026 · 4 min

MRV, Explained for Engineers

A carbon credit is only worth the system that proves it's real — so MRV (measurement, reporting, and verification) is less a climate problem than an engineering one: building data pipelines that survive an adversarial audit.

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June 22, 2026 · 3 min

Dare. Reason. Build. — Why This Blog Exists

Why courage, reason, and craft aren't three separate virtues but one discipline — the manifesto behind dayrlism, written at the seam where senior engineering meets climate-tech founding.

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June 21, 2026 · 5 min

Hello, Keystatic — and What This Blog Actually Costs

This began as a throwaway demo post to prove the CMS worked. I'm keeping it, because what it was demonstrating turned out to be the most interesting thing about the site: a blog with a database's worth of features and no database.

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