Taking on engagements

Kevin Ferron

I'm interested.

Machines

I take things apart to see how they work, and create new things.

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Nov 10, 2026Leftover Screws: Neurons and factoriesWhat I took apart in the Lab this week, and what's still on the bench. (opens in a new tab)
Nov 8, 2026agent-neuron: what happens when the rules sit on the box, not in a controllerTwenty-one chapters, three public repos and a 3D view, every number from a recording on kevinferron.com (opens in a new tab)
Nov 6, 2026rigswig: what your coding agent loads before you typeA small open-source tool I built, now on crates.io and npm. Every claim here is from its docs, its releases, or the makers' own docs, linked on the page. (opens in a new tab)

Lab bench

Earlier Lab updates Atom feed of Lab

KFTCDA

Earlier KFTCDA updates Atom feed of KFTCDA

The Porch

Earlier Porch updates Atom feed of Porch

Finds

Earlier Finds updates Atom feed of Finds

ai · engineeringx.com2 NovExploring Super-agent Design: Towards a More Autonomous Agent System (opens in a new tab)
A design for an always-on agent: a router session talks to people, workers run tasks in parallel on events, a watchdog sits outside. Early tests.
engineering · aidanluu.com1 NovWe should be more ambitious with the software we build (opens in a new tab)
AI tools cut the cost of building software, so people should attempt projects they once ruled out; heavy testing can make the results good enough to trust.
ai404media.co30 OctManifestos, Fear, and 'Loser Thinking': Inside Proton's AI Reckoning (opens in a new tab)
Reports that Proton's leadership is pushing rapid AI adoption, and that staff describe intimidation; a spokesperson acknowledged some employees are unhappy.
ai · careersfelixrieseberg.com28 OctHunger beats tenure: advice for junior engineers (opens in a new tab)
Execution got cheap, so what counts now is picking the impactful problem, building the prototype yourself, and keeping fresh eyes. Good advice at any level.

Repos

5 repos, 6 topics.

Every line is a repo filed under a topic: 12 lines. 5 repos sit in more than one.

Latest batch: +5 on Nov 8, 2026, via @overfocus

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Lab

Things I took apart, sorted into drawers. Open one and poke at it.

Minds
8 hubs
How models think, and how teams of them work.
Matter
4 hubs
Atoms to galaxies, amplitudes, rules on a grid, and a brain.
Machines
3 hubs
Cars, chargers and robots, from the standards.
Sound
2 hubs
A synth and the chords in songs.
- MicroFreak3 pages
- Chords7 pages
Trust
3 hubs
Who and what to believe: identity, policy and proof.

What I love

The music, films, books and minds I keep going back to.