// Journal
Notes from production
Thoughts on tech art, code, and design — solutions to problems I struggled to find online.
Building My Portfolio Site - The Technical Art of Web Dev
A deep dive into optimizations, weird bugs, and the journey of building a custom Go + HTMX portfolio site. From 600MB containers to <100MB, and the struggles of Cloudflare Tunnels.
→ 2025-12-17HyprBazzite: Architecting the Ultimate Game Dev OS
Building a custom, immutable OCI-based Linux image tailored for Unreal Engine 5 development, featuring Hyprland, Niri, and deep system optimizations.
→ 2019-11-03Replacing Copies with Instances in Maya
Building a Python tool to find duplicate meshes in Maya scenes and convert them to instances for better performance.
→ 2018-06-26Using Global Variables in pymxs
How to store and persist variables in 3ds Max using pymxs, including session variables and file properties.
→ 2018-06-203ds Max and Python - Why pymxs Matters
Why Python is becoming the standard for technical art pipelines, and how pymxs brings modern scripting to 3ds Max.
→ 2018-06-20Kickoff Post - Starting a Tech Art Blog
Why I'm starting this blog and what you can expect to find here.
→