Dynamicland is still my guiding north star — the idea that computation should be a seeing tool, something that makes invisible structure visible and shareable. That principle shaped everything I built this quarter.

Code Shipped

Item Date Status
Stacker DSL (reader + macro expander) in Racket Jan 20–22 Completed
Matrix-vector multiplication module in Racket Jan 26 Completed
PowerShell git-summary alias Jan 30 Completed
Single-neuron malt training demo Jan 16 Completed
UHG visual explorer (Klein disk, drag-point) Feb 13 Completed + discarded
Quadrance computation table Feb 17 Completed + discarded
cross_ratio_proj() Python function Feb 18 Completed
quadrance() + loss() PyTorch embedding functions Feb 23 Written, framing paused
instacomments README fix Feb 19 Shipped
Bilinear form Scheme DSL stubs Mar 2 Exploratory

Original Frameworks Invented

  1. “Seeing Tools” as a design philosophy — DSLs, visualizers, tables as instruments for making invisible structure visible. Coined and elaborated across Feb 13–25. “Inventing on Principle at its finest! Bret Victor would be proud of me.”

  2. “Probing” as a research epistemology — when facing an opaque system, don’t demand a theory first; send cheap experiments and read the echoes. Crystallized Feb 26. “This is how working mathematicians actually experience the subject.”

  3. UHG as an “API to the hyperbolic plane” — Universal Hyperbolic Geometry as a kernel/seeing tool for hyperbolic ML, replacing classical logmap/expmap. Feb 28. “Universal Hyperbolic Geometry is an interface to the API of the hyperbolic plane, one whose implementation I could not take a peek at.”

  4. DSL-as-cheaper-neural-net argument — structured domains don’t need neural nets if you design the right language. Jan 18. “Often, creating a domain specific language is a much cheaper solution!”

  5. “Math as DSL / proofs as programs” — arrived at the Curry-Howard correspondence organically through the stacker work. Jan 21. “Now, I see math as choosing the right language. Proofs are just programs that type-check.”

  6. Conceptual Design as constraint analysis — a design without forcing functions cannot evolve. Applied to UHG Feb 15. “Limitations are forcing functions. But right now UHG has no forcing functions.”

Workflows Developed

  1. REPL + Claude Code learning loop (DrRacket + timed work sessions) — Jan 15 onward, sustained. “REPL-based interactive development might solve my problem with slow feedback loops.”

  2. uv Python project workflow — adopted Jan 23, ongoing. Figured out through trial and error: uv init → uv add → uv sync → uv run.

  3. Intermediate artifacts for learning hard math — build a series of visualizations, each making one property salient while hiding others. Feb 18. “The quadrance computation table (makes the 1/(1-r²) blowup salient, hides the projective formalism).”

  4. Live-blog while working (Roam capture → Twitter) — Feb 18, active. “This workflow just grew organically during this work session. Everything that turned out well in my life followed the same design process.”

  5. Reply-to-build-audience Twitter strategy — high-quality replies to niche-popular users rather than broadcasting to a general audience. Working: DefenderOfBasic turned on notifications, +6 followers from one reply.

  6. Somatic processing before cognitive work — exercise/emotional release as prerequisite to focus. Feb 12–21. “I felt depressed until 6 pm. Then, I decided to go on a walk and exercise. Now, I’m working again like nothing happened.”