A cartoon scanner robot grabs a half-built audio file still being written by a frantic encoder, while a finished file waits patiently behind a rename gate.

Partial Files Are Not Finished Files

A scanner found an audio file while it was still being written and taught me that a filename is not a completion receipt.

November 6, 2026 · 3 min · 467 words · Justin

Teaching a Computer to Mute the Sounds I Hate

I tried to delete a sound from my life with a volume threshold. The sound was never loud — it was a fingerprint, and I had to teach a machine to read it.

June 4, 2026 · 5 min · 904 words · Justin