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Hello, world

A first post — why I started writing, what you can expect here, and what I actually build when nobody is watching.

I spend most of my day inside a terminal — reading papers, wrangling GPUs, shipping little pieces of infrastructure that make bigger things possible. This blog is where I’m going to slow down and write about the interesting bits out loud.

What you’ll find here

  • Notes on ML engineering — the practical stuff I actually hit in production: inference serving, model packaging, evaluation, and the plumbing nobody writes tutorials about.
  • Project writeups — small, honest postmortems of the things I build. The real version, not the sanitized README.
  • Tools and infra — my dotfiles, my VPS setup, the unglamorous pieces that hold it all together.

Why this exists

I’ve been doing cool things alone for a long time. This site is my attempt to stop doing that — to share what I learn in public, meet other people doing similar work, and maybe save someone else a few of the weekends I’ve already burned figuring this stuff out.

If any of that sounds useful, subscribe via RSS or find me on the socials linked below. I’d love to hear from you.

— Andrew

Andrew Damon-Smith

Notes from a machine learning engineer building in the open.

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