About

Welcome to my website. I write about computing, history, and philosophy. My technical interests span machine learning, multi-agent systems, and performance-oriented backends. I work with Python, Rust, C, and TypeScript. I enjoy building things that need to be fast and scale well.

Right now I'm developing Baileys Analytics, a rental analytics platform.

Writing

I avoid being prescriptive and instead prefer to frame my experiences and how I've learned or grown from them. I write about programming, statistics, psychology, philosophy, and history.

Writing helps me think. I welcome critiques, fact checking, and fresh angles I didn't consider. Reach me at nico@nospamsalm.nospamdev.

Studies

I am a student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, majoring in Computer Sciences. I spend most of my time hanging out in the UPL on campus with my friends.

Some of my favorite classes:

Theory of Multi-agent Machine Learning (Manolis Vlatakis)
Game Theory, Learning and Optimization (Manolis Vlatakis)
Parallel and High Throughput Computing (Eftychios Sifakis)
Operating Systems (Michael Swift)
Distributed Systems (Tyler Caraza-Harter)

Note: The first three courses listed are graduate-level

Colophon

The site is intentionally minimal, built with Eleventy and plain HTML/CSS. JavaScript is sparse; posts that need it get MathJax, a table of contents, sidenotes, and category filtering. Every page loads Rybbit for privacy-friendly analytics and instant.page for link prefetching. Images get optimized to AVIF automatically during the build. AI crawlers are blocked via robots.txt. There's an RSS feed and a sitemap.

You can find the source code here.

Pages

Pages not quite worth putting in the header.

Buttons

If you'd like to link back to my site, use my 88x31 button.