NOTES.LOG
WRITING.
Essays on how things were built, and running notes on work in progress.
● NOTEJune 2026
LLM Maker — Model Registry & Design Documentation
Building decoder-only LLMs: pretraining tiny models on FineWeb-Edu, instruction-tuning, and scaling up — every model, the architecture and why, design decisions, measured performance, and I/O examples.
PAUSED
> read_more.sh
✦ ESSAYMarch 2026
Building a RAG chatbot from scratch
The retrieval pipeline, embedding strategy, vector DB choice, and the prompt engineering that made it useful.
> read_more.sh
✦ ESSAYFebruary 2026
An autonomous ML agent in 8 phases
From data ingestion to model validation — the iterative process of building Sakura.
> read_more.sh
✦ ESSAYFebruary 2026
Serverless ML with RunPod and Docker
Containerising a model and deploying it as a pay-per-use endpoint. No Kubernetes required.
> read_more.sh
✦ ESSAYJanuary 2026
Shipping a music app in one HTML file
Why constraints breed creativity — and how a single file produced a better product.
> read_more.sh