Hi, I'm Victor

Engineer, reader, and dad. CTO at Boon AI, previously Apple Intelligence. Writing about family adventures, technology, books, and living well.

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El Salvador with Kids: 5 Days of Adventure, Vomit, and Unexpected Familiarity

Our family of four spends 5 days in El Salvador on a budget, navigating rental car chaos, armed security everywhere, two vomiting kids, and discovers a country in the middle of a post-gang renaissance that feels surprisingly like Indonesia.

Why I Left Apple to join Boon

After seven years at Apple, I joined Boon, a logistics AI startup, seeking greater growth potential and leveraging a team with deep domain expertise that knows how to sell what I know how to build

Recent Posts

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Claude Code and Codex both have /goal. Here's how to use it.

Both vendors shipped the same /goal primitive within months of each other. Here's the workflow I use to background a full bug fix end-to-end.

Watercolor frontier town: a lit beacon with a small dog at its base, a piped refinery with rising smoke, and a one-eyed watchtower, linked by a rope of red beads.

Inside Gas Town

An end-to-end, intuition-first explanation of Steve Yegge's multi-agent coding orchestrator, how it has evolved into Gas City, and what its design says about the next layer of developer tools.

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The Unified Multimodal Stack

How modern multimodal models are wired, and why moving from a vision backbone to a four-modality model takes more than plugging in more encoders.

A watercolor and ink illustration of a 1920s wooden telephone switchboard standing at the seam between an old brick-walled room with a gas lamp on the left and a bright modern wood-paneled hallway on the right, with many fabric-wrapped cords on the left consolidating into a tight bundle on the right, an open ledger with a pen on a small shelf, an empty operator's chair, and a wall clock between the two spaces.

How PgBouncer Works

A from-the-ground-up explanation of PgBouncer: why Postgres needs a connection pooler, what each pooling mode actually does, what breaks under transaction pooling, and how to run the thing in production.