A shift from writing code to verifying it raised a harder question a week later: how do you onboard a human into a workflow built for agents?
ryder · 2026-07-01 · 5 min read · ai, engineering, agentic-workflow, reflection
AI agents can map a codebase's vulnerabilities for free, and unfunded projects die anyway — an unresolved tension with my own CC0 advocacy.
ryder · 2026-07-01 · 5 min read · ai, open-source, engineering
A 2010s NLP library taught me to stream data instead of loading it all. The same idea now lets a translation tool handle languages it has never seen.
ryder · 2026-07-01 · 5 min read · ai, nlp, methodology, engineering
A free, open-source, plaintext Greek and Hebrew Bible.
ryder · 2025-01-31 · 2 min read · bible, greek, hebrew
Exploring why Creative Commons Zero (CC0) is the optimal licensing choice for openly licensed Bibles, examining potential issues with other CC licenses.
ryder · 2024-12-20 · 3 min read · bible, licensing, cc0, open-source, policy
Using AI-generated music to help memorize text and information
ryder · 2024-11-19 · 7 min read · ai, music, memory, learning, tools
Essential questions for product design, covering impact, experience, core value, and innovation potential.
ryder · 2024-11-18 · 2 min read · design, product, questions, development, ux
A straightforward machine translation pipeline designed to tackle the challenges of languages with limited resources.
ryder · 2024-09-26 · 3 min read · translation, nlp, machine-learning, low-resource, pipeline
One of the major hurdles to the translation of the Bible is the assumption that one cannot translate the Bible by paying attention to the language alone.
ryder · 2024-09-23 · 3 min read · translation, bible, linguistics
Creating a short novel that covers the major genres of the Bible in a minimal form, as a way to gather translation data for new, undocumented languages.
ryder · 2024-08-24 · 5 min read · translation, bible, genre, methodology, linguistics