current
building imghost, a self-hosted image and video host, with fastapi, postgres, redis, and s3-compatible storage.
jamesyc
software, infrastructure, models, philosophy.
software engineer at microsoft. i like systems that survive contact with reality, technical writing that cashes out, and ideas that still make sense after the rhetoric is removed.
systems
interested in llm internals, inference constraints, kv cache math, bandwidth limits, and deployment design from raspberry pi to larger infra.
stack
personal infrastructure across cloudflare, docker compose, a home server, and local gpu-heavy ml workflows.
writing
ongoing notes on consciousness, predictive processing, selfhood, language, and the places where philosophy and model discourse overlap.
areas