SwiftDeck — Why I Rewrote the Stream Deck App From Scratch
The official Elgato app used almost a gigabyte of RAM across eight processes and got stuck whenever my monitor went to sleep. So I wrote a native macOS replacement.
Writing
Notes on engineering, tooling, sound, and making things.
2026
14 postsLayers and Ensembles: Engineering a Development Loop Like a Network
How a sentence I kept typing to my AI agents turned into a skill system, and why it ended up shaped like a neural network: depth, width and a council of specialists.
Kinetip — Making a Pen Tablet Feel Native on macOS
I run my Mac with a pen tablet instead of a mouse. The vendor driver kept getting in the way, so I wrote my own. Here's the input path from tablet to screen, and what keeping a realtime driver alive taught me.
Patcher v5.4.2 — What Changed Since v5.1.0
v5.1.0 finished the patch editor. Since then I've worked on everything around it: the shared data, the public side, multi-panel modules, and a lot of small fixes.
Acoustic Treatment on a Budget — What Actually Worked in My Square Room
A new apartment, a square room, and €310 of polyester panels. The biggest improvement came from moving the desk, which cost nothing.
CostaMeno — Finding the Cheapest Fuel in Italy with Open Government Data
I wanted to know which pump nearby was cheapest without a login, an ad or a location prompt. It turned out the government already publishes the data.
Impulse Dev Diary — Entity Pools, Dead Threads, and 3am Cascade Failures
One bad night building a live WebGPU visual engine: how a freeze in the entity pool happened, why it was so hard to find, and the boring fix that solved it.
Home Assistant as Infrastructure, Not a Hobby
A dedicated server, a UPS, cheap AliExpress switches and a lot of YAML. How I rebuilt my home automation from scratch so I could actually rely on it.
Three Small Tools for Living with Local AI
mini-tagger, mini-renamer and lms-guard: three small macOS utilities I built because running models locally is great, except for everything around the model.
The Live AV Pipeline — From Modular Patch to Finished Video
A modular set looks improvised from the audience. Here's the weeks of patching, documenting, soundchecking and editing that go into one.
Impulse — A Visual Engine Built for Live Performance (and AI)
I perform audiovisual sets. TouchDesigner taught me how visual engines work, and its interface convinced me to build my own.
Giving AI Agents Eyes and Hands in Creative Tools
My AI assistant could read my code but not my canvas. MCP servers for Figma and Blender changed that. Here's what it was like to use them on real work.
I Planned My Apartment in Figma (And I'd Do It Again)
I moved into a new place and did the obvious thing for a UX engineer: opened Figma. Treating the rooms like an interface problem gave me a set of rules I still use.
Stream Deck + Karabiner — Building an Input Layer That Fits How I Actually Work
I stopped putting up with the default keyboard and built my own input setup out of a Stream Deck XL and some Karabiner rules. It isn't really about speed.
2025
2 postsVoice Coding with Talon — A Year of Hands-Free Development
My wrists were getting tired, so I started coding by voice. A year later, here's what works, what doesn't, and how my Talon setup works with JetBrains and the terminal.
2024
3 posts
Patcher — Building a Database for Eurorack Modular Synthesis
I kept losing my modular patches, so I built somewhere to keep them. Then other people started using it.
Reactive Visuals — Angular Meets Three.js
My visuals code got tangled once audio, OSC and UI controls all tried to drive it at once. Treating every input as a stream untangled it.
Poly Highlights — Designing a Luminance-Corrected IDE Theme
My eyes were tired after a couple of hours with every theme I tried. Here's how I fixed it by designing the colors around brightness first.