Helo. I’m Alex Spezowka — a technologist and hacker who works and lives internationally.
By day I’m a freelance operations consultant; before that, I built and managed infrastructure that still serve millions of people a year, and have also worked as a sommelier, CADD designer, line cook, shoe shine boy, radio DJ, baker, and journalist. I have a great love of the world and people in it and try to share that here, as best I can, on this blog.
I write about technology, independence, philosophy, and love, on no fixed schedule. Welcome.
Projects
llms-full.txtNahal: The Cyber Monastery
An order of machines kept at prayer.
Haruspex
Digital haruspicy: feed it an image and read the prophecy in its corruption.
Axiom
Fitch-style natural deduction proof checker for the browser
Core Values Wizard
Discover your 5 core values through guided introspection.
Mixtape Maker
Prepare music playlists for recording onto an analog cassette.
Film Development Calculator
Calculate the time between film baths automagically.
Logistics is Dying; or - Dude, Where's my Mail?
In March 1860, William H. Russell established the Overland Express Route, colloquially called the Pony Express, to carry express mail between St. Joseph, Missouri, and California; an area with no colonialist settlements between. Russell failed repeatedly to get funding from the Senate Post Office...
Read more ⟶llms.txt
Imagine my shock and surprise to discover that when I submit resumes now, I quickly see LLM research agents in my access logs pouring over my portfolio page. As time moves ever forward, I suspect I’ll be dealing with AI agents more frequently, especially in the job market.
I’m not...
Read more ⟶Truth Functional Logic for Hackers - Part One
Bob and Alice are two hackers working on an embedded system with a severe computational constraint - there is a bug in their low-cost microcontroller making OR operations significantly slower than any other operation on the chipset.
When they profiled their micropython code, they found that OR...
Read more ⟶Greg & the Eternal Brunch
The year was 2036. OpenAI had finally done it. After decades of press releases, quarterly existential crises, and machine learning papers so esoteric they made Finnegans Wake read like PopSci, they’d finished gpt-6z (revision 3) - a perfect, autonomous general intelligence.
Its unveiling was...
Read more ⟶All These People Are Vampires - Building the Contra-Economy
In the 1980’s, Robert L. Crandall, head of American Airlines, removed one single olive from the salad they served passengers. He thought they wouldn’t notice - and he was right. This removal of the olive saved the company $40,000 a year.1 and began the downfall of Service Capitalism....
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