Site updates.

Swapped the analytics stack from Cloudflare beacons + Umami Cloud to PostHog (free tier, EU region). Cloudflare was getting ad-blocked, Umami’s API moved behind a paywall. The Traffic section reads real numbers again. Bonus: a new CV downloads counter, and a site-wide accessibility and mobile-polish pass.

Six lessons from five and a half years of an ML PhD. None of them about the technical content: that part is in the papers. This is the rest.

Hit a reaction by accident? Tap it again, it’s gone. Same for comments: if you posted one from this device, you’ll see a Delete button next to it. No login needed: tracked per device, not per account.

Every blog post now has a comments thread at the bottom. New comments feed into the stats page just like reactions, with a per-country breakdown.

Cleaned up a few half-built things: removed the experimental Hero Lab and the internal widgets showcase, renamed the level editor to /explore-editor, and tightened a couple of stale routes.

Every card on the stats page now pulls real data: site views from Cloudflare, top pages from Umami, reactions from the new backend, contributions from GitHub, downloads from PyPI and HuggingFace. No more placeholders.

Each blog post now has an emoji picker at the end. 👍 ❤️ 🎉 💡 — your reactions accumulate and show up on the stats page.

Resolved the two “Workbench” widgets on the home page. Now there’s one Workbench card (the tools I use) and one Projects card (the work I’ve built). Each links to its own page.

The projects page leads with the strongest work now. Reordered featured, renamed “ML Research” to “Machine Learning,” and moved older educational repos (the Numpy CNN, the p5 shooter) to the bottom.

The inspirations page is now a real list of who and what I actually return to: mentors, researchers, books on the shelf, YouTube channels, podcasts, newsletters, and blogs. About 34 items, each with a link.

The about page has a new shape: work history first with a rail timeline, then the story behind it in 8 chapters. A scroll-tracked curve weaves through every chapter.

Redesigned the Blog, Projects, and Publications pages. Compact lists, click-to-expand details, and proper co-author and citation data pulled live.

Rebuilt the Contact, Community Wall, and Changelog pages from the ground up. Cleaner layouts, better typography, and the new widgets in their natural habitat.

Reworked every widget on the site for a consistent look and feel: same chrome, same spacing, same hover states. A few new ones too.

The interactive version of the portfolio is nearly ready. Teaser hints live in the Hello World post.

Blog posts can now render LaTeX equations through KaTeX. Inline and block math both work.

Shipped Hello World and How I got here.

The new portfolio is live. The first post, Hello World, walks through the history and what’s new.