Now · August 2026

Building the layer beneath increasingly capable software.

This is the page for what is occupying my desk and my head right now: the systems I am trying to make real, the questions that are still unresolved, and the parts of life keeping the work in perspective.

The main thing

MVM: a hard boundary beneath agent behavior

I am building the substrate I want autonomous software to run on: isolated microVMs with no ambient network authority, explicit capability grants, bounded delegation, fresh identity across forks, auditable communication, and receipts that explain what actually happened. The hard part is not launching a VM. It is making sure the controller cannot quietly make itself more powerful than the plan that admitted it.

Boundary No guest NIC; host-mediated I/O

Authority Attenuated grants and child budgets

Evidence Audit chains, witnesses, and receipts

Speed Useful work inside a 200 ms budget

Explore MVM Read Beneath the Agent

Active threads

Work moving in parallel

These are not side projects so much as different views of the same problem: identity, authority, execution, and evidence.

Research + runtime

Hologram and UOR

I am working on content-addressed execution, semantic identity, portable object graphs, and a runtime where storage location is a realization detail rather than the name of the thing.

Explore Hologram

Specification

Lean and formal reasoning

I am getting better at stating the invariant before writing the mechanism—especially around capability subsets, exact arithmetic, proof boundaries, and research claims that need to remain open.

Read the field note

Writing in public

Explaining the machinery

I am turning implementation decisions, failed experiments, and uncomfortable measurements into essays while they are still close enough to remember honestly.

Browse the writing

Recent movement

The latest dispatches

This list is pulled from the writing archive, so it changes as new work is published.

Aug 15, 2026