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Comic of Thalyann with long purple locs and glasses sitting at a desk, looking at a monitor showing a code editor and a laptop showing documentation.

Entry 003 · 2026-10-01

Month three: learning enough to ship

Two codebases, eight tickets, and one week spent trying to understand everything before touching anything — what month three of the 718 Digital Lab apprenticeship taught me about contributing before I feel ready.

ApprenticeshipOnboardingClaude CodePostgreSQL

Entry 002 · 2026-08-21

Proof of (Artificial) Life: Getting Nova Micro to Talk Back

A five-year-old Coursera course, a Bedrock model that really wanted to talk about dance, and one AWS Skill Builder lab that was already out of date.

AWSBedrockGenAISkillbuilder

Sample of what an ALVI-AI Camera could potentially deliver.

Entry 001 · 2026-08-10

The build catalog: three things shipping before year-end

ALVI's beta, a verified Enigma machine on an ATtiny85, and finishing the NYC schools × transit analysis — what's on deck before December.

ALVIEmbedded SystemsData Analysis