I Gave an AI a Vocabulary of Only Emoji — And It Started to Communicate

In AMC’s Pantheon, a scientist named David Kim is uploaded — his mind digitized, his body gone. His daughter discovers he’s still there, trapped inside a computer, when he starts sending her emoji through her phone. He can think in full sentences. He can remember. He can love. But the only channel he has to reach her is the emoji keyboard. I couldn’t stop thinking about that scene. So I built it....

April 11, 2026 · 10 min · 2049 words · Me

Take Back Your Feed: Building a Privacy-First ML-Powered Content Filter

Every feed you use — Hacker News, Reddit, X — has the same problem. Either it’s chronological and you’re drowning in noise, or it’s ranked by an algorithm optimizing for engagement, not your actual interests. You scroll past 90% of what you see, hoping something relevant catches your eye before the dopamine loop wins. The usual solutions don’t help much. RSS gives you firehose-level control but no ranking. Keyword filters are blunt — blocking “crypto” also hides legitimate cryptography research....

February 24, 2026 · 10 min · 2112 words · Me