Language. Faith. Memory. Systems.
A blog about overthinking everything that matters (and some things that don't).
Dew of Your Youth is about thought, memory, matters of faith, and the systems we build to keep our thinking from dissolving.
Jewish texts, personal workflows, family archives, and languages learned along the way.
If you’ve ever tried to organize your soul with Markdown, welcome.
Language learning as obsession, memory systems, and pedagogy.
Obsidian, Hugo tweaks, DevOps rants, scripts that almost worked.
Jewish rituals, Torah journaling, spiritual processing, the Elul Logs.
Genealogy deep-dives, travel stories, cultural identity unraveling.
Tech & Tools
Don’t Clip Your Wings: On Building Systems That Push You Toward Greatness
May 31, 2026 6 minutesCompletion rate is a trap. The moment your productivity system scores you on what percentage of commitments you finish, the rational move is to stop writing down anything you might actually fail at. I ran into this building my own personal ops system, and it turns out fixing it means thinking about Item Response Theory, Glicko ratings, and the Sharpe ratio.
Tech & Tools
Personal Ops: Capture, Digest, Adapt, Propose
May 28, 2026 6 minutesTwo years ago my Elul accountability experiment half-worked. The problem was friction, not motivation — and I had no mechanism to adjust expectations based on actual performance. So I built one: voice capture via Telegram, weekly LLM digest, and a daily agenda calibrated to what I’ve actually been completing versus missing.
Learning & Languages
Modern Standard Arabic, Hebrew, and the Ghost of Yiddish
May 26, 2026 12 minutesHebrew became the mother tongue of millions; Modern Standard Arabic remains a formal register nobody speaks at home. Both underwent deliberate standardization in the same historical window — the difference reveals what language revival actually requires.
Tech & Tools
The TTS Chronicles: Making Arabic Audio Work in Haki
May 13, 2026 8 minutesHow Haki’s Arabic audio went from browser text-to-speech to generated MP3s, dialect-specific fallbacks, and a still-imperfect pronunciation system.
Tech & Tools
How Hard Is Face Detection?
Apr 28, 2026 7 minutesI wanted to see how hard face detection is in 2026. I tested Haar cascades, MediaPipe’s BlazeFace, and YOLO on real images. The short answer: it depends entirely on whether your subject is wearing sunglasses.