Hi, I'm Jacob —

Me on a plate.

Essays and doodles about grief, memory, and the urge to treat people like systems you can repair.

Everything I've made, set down in one place. Take what you want. None of it's for sale.

Start anywhere ↓
// The compendium

Everything I've made

Music, books, essays, poems, doodles — and one honeypot. Start anywhere.

01
Music
Songs I wrote and recorded myself. There's a whole channel. Start with one.
YouTube ↗ Apple Music ↗
Listen →
02
Books
A Garden of Rage, a novel. Grey Matter, reflections. Both in print.
A Garden of Rage · Amazon ↗ Grey Matter · Lulu ↗
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03
Writing
Grief, memory, fraud, the people I've tried to fix. Some of the essays are evidence.
Substack ↗
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04
Poems
Short ones. Still counting them.
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05
Doodles
How AI actually works, drawn out plainly. The hype doesn't survive a diagram.
See →
06
The honeypot
A decoy server. It logs every break-in — 5.4 million so far — and publishes the blocklist.
Look →
// Doodles

Visual guides to how AI actually works

Complex ideas, drawn out plainly. Free to read, easy to share.

01
How LLMs Work
Training, tokenization, attention, generation — the whole pipeline, drawn out.
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02
The Seahorse Problem
Why AI makes things up with total confidence — and how to catch it.
Read →
03
The Biased Mirror
How algorithms inherit our flaws, told through four real documented cases.
Read →
04
Token Gesture
The hidden currency of AI — why some text costs more and context windows fill.
Read →
05
Build Your Own LLM
Paste text, train a mini language model in your browser, watch it learn.
Try it →
// The honeypot

I keep a honeypot running

A decoy server on the open internet. Everyone who breaks in gets logged, counted, and published. The counts below are live.

5,465,692
Attacks logged
5,007,928
Credentials captured
1,859
On the heuristic RBL
AbuseIPDB Contributor Badge (live)

The worst offenders, published: a free hourly-updated blocklist — honeypot-confirmed, drop-in for fail2ban/ipset/nginx.

// Who

Almost twenty years in IT — networks, systems, security — which is probably where the urge to treat people like systems I can repair comes from. Army veteran. I make things and keep the receipts. This site is the file.

// Contact

That's the plate. If you want to talk: [email protected]