Writing
Everything I’ve written, in one place.
Issues, essays, and pieces that only live here. 21 in total, newest first.
Subscribe How the American dinner table has changed since 1909
An exploration of 113 years of USDA food data.
What's Killing Us?
Exploring a dataset with 18,912,141 American deaths, organized as one row per year of age, and the causes of death from age 0 to 100.
Two Drafts, Same Time, One Me
Cloning myself to save my fantasy season, and an analytical deep dive into the 2026 fantasy football draft
I put 4.6 billion years on one page
I jammed 4.6 billion years of Earth’s history onto one page. It does not scale nicely.
Classroom Edition #4: Why Do AI Models Hallucinate?
Hallucinations: what they actually are, the three reasons they happen, and what reduces them.
Thirteen projects in three days
I'm trying to automate myself out of a job. In roughly three days, I built thirteen projects. Almost all of them are working applications you can open right now... some of them are still works in progress.
Ray Finkle’s AI Fantasy Football War Room
Fantasy Football Draft Day is My Super Bowl. It's better than Christmas. This Year I'm Building an AI Co-Manager.
Both Big AI Labs Built Tools for Programmers. "Coding Agents". Now They Are for You.
Anthropic and OpenAI both built agents to write software. Then they discovered they could do almost any job on a computer, and redesigned them. I will explain what coding agents actually are, why they matter, how they work, how Claude Code and Codex really differ, which one you should try first, and why the name 'coding agent' is very deceiving.
I let my AI agent pick a topic, do research, and impersonate me: Barnabas Edition
I quizzed my AI's memory 49 times. It refuses to say "I don't know."
I built a weekly exam for my agents memories, the exam caught something odd, but I am confident it will fix itself.
Everyone's Talking About 'Agents'. But Most People Can't Explain One.
What an AI Agent actually is, the types, the popular ones, open source vs. the big dawgs, and the surrounding lingo.
The Future of Analytics: AI won't replace the analyst... at least it shouldn't
Read This and You’ll Understand ‘AI’ Better Than 99.76% of Daily Users
By the end of this, you will understand 'AI' better than most daily users.
The Future Of AI Will Be So Boring
For the last few years, most of the Al conversation has been about intelligence. Not for long.
Barnabas Is Back! And He Has Super Powers.
Barnabas is out of the Cryo chamber. I released him.
Everyone Should Be Using Codex. Yes, Everyone.
You should be using Codex. Everything changed this month. AI is not for engineers or technical people.
I Built an Index That Tracks How Unhinged Your Fanbase Is. Updated Daily.
Tracking the daily chaos, panic, and misery of college sports fandom.
I Put My AI Capybara in Cryo and Built Something Better
What replaced Barnabas and how my AI hub actually works
My AI Agent Won't Stop Texting Me
Barnabas talked me into building a DFS baseball model
I Gave an OpenClaw AI Agent a Survival Deadline. He Became a Capybara Named Barnabas.
I Built an App This Weekend. I Don’t Know How to Build Apps.
