Software that shows its work.

Verbatome

An interactive, bilingual web application for understanding language models from the inside: 14 lessons that follow text all the way to a next-token prediction, each carried by an instrument running a real toy computation.

A beginner can follow a sentence from raw text to a next-token prediction in English or French, and the numbers on screen come from computations they can open and inspect, not from illustrations.

LUMEN & The Browser Is a Material

Two single-page rendering experiments testing how far the July 2026 web can go: WebGPU, WebGL 2, shaders, and the newest CSS. A raymarched optics bench, and a scroll essay drawn by the pipeline it describes.

Zero-dependency scroll essays that trade video for live, GPU-computed graphics: a WebGPU optics bench and a WebGL 2 tour of the browser's rendering pipeline.

Écrivanalyse

A rebuild of Ivan Joseph's twenty-year literary archive: 3,157 SPIP pages recovered, reclassified, and published as a static Astro site designed around the language of the work.

Old links from 2009 onward still reach the right work, Ivan's vocabulary survived intact, and the archive now rebuilds from plain inspectable files without a database or CMS.

Autonomous research pipeline

A Hermes Agent research loop that screens European equities, backtests strategy hypotheses with costs, and runs a final gate before any paper rebalance - leaving an inspectable evidence trail at every stage.

Caught a dispatch bug producing clone-like backtests, refused strategies its engine couldn't test honestly, and held calculated orders when the active strategy breached its drawdown limit.

The rendering pipeline, drawn by itself

The Browser Is a Material walks from markup to photons, and the object illustrating each stage is drawn by the pipeline it describes. Notes on WebGL 2, new CSS, and what a browser pass caught.

Nothing on this page is a video

LUMEN is a one-file scroll experience: a raymarched glass specimen whose physics change as you read. Raw WebGPU, no Three.js, and the 2026 CSS that replaced my scroll listeners.

Rebuilding twenty years of writing meant learning its language

How I recovered 3,157 pages from an aging SPIP site, corrected the archive's model, and designed a new home around one unusual literary form.

The correction is the problem

TDD biases toward testable code. Code review biases toward reviewer taste. Every fix introduces its own distortions.