May 2026
Essay · Languages · Code · Creativity
On code, creativity, and languages
I grew up speaking Greek, French, Mandarin, Spanish. I played violin since I was five. When I took AP CS, something clicked — code is just another language, and the interesting part is what you say with it.
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May 2026
RL · PyTorch · Building
What it took to get a pole to stop falling
I built this in a day for a robotics internship application. Three failed training runs, one implementation detail about variance, and something genuinely clicked. This is about both things.
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May 2026
Controls · Python · Building
Three terms that control everything
PID controllers are in literally every robot ever made. I didn't know the term until recently. So I built one from scratch — and found feedback loops in everything I already do.
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2026
Product · Startups · Building
I built a social discovery app from my dorm room. Here's how it actually happened.
The best discovery tool I had was a screenshot of someone else's group chat. That's why I built Filo — from Echo Link to Numi to Loci to a working React Native app on Supabase.
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May 2026
Music · Code · Web Audio
From the Chaconne to Web Audio: building a synth that does its own music theory
Ten years of violin, then a line of code that made a sound. This is about TONUS — and why Bach and FM synthesis are the same lesson.
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Spring 2026
Live Coding · Algorave · Community
Algorave & Workshop: bringing live coding to campus
We hosted Columbia's first Algorave. Five people in the crowd got up and tried live coding themselves.
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Spring 2026
Generative Art · Algorithms
What happens when you let a grid compose your music
A cellular automaton is three rules. From three rules emerge music that no one wrote.
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