i'm a software engineer based in the philippines, driven by curiosity and whatever i find interesting. i learn fast with the caveat of goldfish memory (which i call my context lol) and i'm usually self-motivated that i forget to eat.
this is not like other portfolios. feel free to have a look around and explore what makes me, me.
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@schmayterling
open githubrecruiter?
(follow the red line) →the same circle, over and over.
for those who want something simpler
enter simple mode
i enjoy writing code.
if ai solves every problem,
what's left?892 commits. the personal AI agent i've been trying to build since 2023 is finally becoming something i'm proud of.
one question usually turns into three projects and too many open tabs.
typescript, python, rust, go, infrastructure, and agents.
in roughly five weeks
an earlier role handled 2,000+ requests a day at 99.3% uptime.
i update this board whenever my attention changes, so it never settles into a final form.
how WFDs work, when to write one, the states a document can be in, frontmatter format, and the markdown features available.
my desktop is scattered screenshots, dozens of windows, half-finished checklists, and constant switching.
whatever feels urgent or interesting gets the whole pile.
right now, only this website and my ai work count as current.
did i mention this board evolves over time? you might find new stuff here next time. suggestions? email me.
hey@ryanaque.com
i turned weeks of neuroscience papers into her memory system.
weave gives long-running agents memory, state tracking, and retrieval that can be inspected.
i watched a kdrama about a girl who forgets everything every morning and realized my AI agent has the same condition. so i built it a brain.
someone else is
on the other end.
i'm less interested in whether it's good.
ideally when something is coming up, whether it's work related or it's just a personal project of mine i usually let it run at the end because i need pressure to perform things.
diffusion models
i built an AI agent with persistent memory. now i need to figure out if it's remembering the truth or just what i wanted to hear.
AI makes me faster. It also might be making me dumber. I'm figuring out where the line is.
atlas maps symbols, calls, tests, and history so developers and agents can ask structural questions about a repository.
2,239-trial benchmark across 8 OSS repos: Atlas beats a text-search baseline by +0.223 deterministic, +0.127 LLM-judge, at 42% fewer tokens.
orchestrator lets a local model read and control a live chromium page through the devtools protocol.
i set the IPD wrong on my new Meta Quest 3 and spent the day wanting to throw up. turns out measuring your eyes properly matters.
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wfd / Feb 12, 2026 / 2 min
i bought a Meta Quest 3 because i wanted to be productive in VR with an immersive desktop and multiple monitors. instead i spent the first session fighting the urge to vomit.
the problem was IPD, or interpupillary distance, which is the distance between the centers of your pupils in millimeters. every VR headset needs this number to align its lenses with your eyes, and if you get it wrong everything feels slightly off. your brain gets conflicting signals from your eyes and your inner ear, and the result is nausea. not the subtle kind either, but the kind where you can't look at a screen, can't focus on anything, and rendering any sort of work is out of the question because your body is screaming at you to stop.
i set it wrong because i forgot what my old Quest 2 used. i owned one years ago and apparently it was set to 63mm, but i didn't remember that when setting up the Quest 3 so i just guessed, which was a bad idea.
after the nausea subsided i measured my IPD properly this time using the ruler method:
i got somewhere between 62 and 63mm, but it was hard to tell exactly because my glasses prescription is overdue and everything's blurry at ruler distance. i went with 63 for now since that's what my Quest 2 apparently used.
this video by Jorange covers the process well if you want a visual guide.
i haven't experienced any dizziness or nausea since. the headset feels natural and i can actually use it for extended sessions without wanting to die. the difference between wrong IPD and right IPD is genuinely night and day.
i might try 62 at some point to see if it's better. the test is simple enough because if i vomit, it was wrong.
the whole point of buying the headset was to have a multi-monitor setup without the actual monitors, and now that the IPD is right it actually delivers on that. here's what my virtual desktop looks like right now.
