Writing · 05 posts
Notes from the build.
Writing about infrastructure, software, open source, and the practical tradeoffs behind the things I'm trying to make.
- 21 Sept 2026Why I rewrote two of my Go toolsSeven months after arguing for Go, I rewrote Lightr and SimpliCD. The language was the least interesting part: it was about boundaries, and about treating a bug report as the spec.5 min read
- 6 Sept 2026Honours at the University of Tokyo's GCI WorldThree months of data science with the Matsuo-Iwasawa Lab, finished with honours: what GCI World is, what it covers, and what it has to do with Inzwi.3 min read
- 4 Aug 2026Inzwi won the Data track at AI4I 2026Inzwi was named Data Champion at the POTRAZ AI for Impact Challenge, first on the Data track. What we pitched, and why the unglamorous part is the part that counts.4 min read
- 28 Jul 2026Notes from Nyanga: the AI4I boot campA week at the AI for Impact Challenge boot camp with Inzwi on the Data track: four tracks, thirty teams, and why a speech AI project is really a data project.5 min read
- 23 Feb 2026The case for building your own toolsWhy I keep building CLI tools, email servers and deployment pipelines from scratch, and why "just use the existing solution" isn't always the right advice.3 min read