<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Udara Jay — Writing]]></title><description><![CDATA[ideas, work and experiments]]></description><link>http://github.com/dylang/node-rss</link><generator>GatsbyJS</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2026 04:56:13 GMT</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[Making a world]]></title><description><![CDATA[I’ve wanted to make a game for a long time. I’ve also always liked games that leave enough room for you to become curious about them: sandboxes, simulations, games where the interesting part is not necessarily getting to the end, but spending enough time inside the rules that you start finding things the maker…]]></description><link>https://udara.io/making-a-world</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://udara.io/making-a-world</guid><pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Proactive AI as control ecology]]></title><description><![CDATA[Modern AI systems and most scientific workflows treat reasoning as a sequence of discrete, stateless interactions. Each prompt begins in isolation, with limited continuity across time. This framing is at odds with how intelligence appears to operate in practice–both in humans and in complex systems–where cognition…]]></description><link>https://udara.io/proactive-ai</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://udara.io/proactive-ai</guid><pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Affordance]]></title><description><![CDATA[Think of affordances as rungs on a ladder you're building while you climb. Each new rung only makes sense if you can reach the one just below it, so every step you add quietly assumes a prior fluency. They've been building this ladder for decades now, and the lower rungs are starting to rot while we're still hammering…]]></description><link>https://udara.io/affordance</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://udara.io/affordance</guid><pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtual cells]]></title><description><![CDATA[All models…]]></description><link>https://udara.io/science/virtual-cells</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://udara.io/science/virtual-cells</guid><pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[The augmented thinker]]></title><description><![CDATA[We tell ourselves we write things down to remember them. But that's only the cover story. The real reason–the one that explains why nearly everyone I admire keeps a notebook, copies out quotes, fills margins, drafts and redrafts–is stranger and more important: we write to find out what we think. A thought in your head…]]></description><link>https://udara.io/the-augmented-thinker</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://udara.io/the-augmented-thinker</guid><pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Memory for AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[This post presents some ideas I worked on over a few months making a biologically inspired memory system for use by my AI agent system. It's designed to emulate characteristics of human cognitive processes, with the hope that it lends itself to the character and contextual awareness of the agents powered by it. W…]]></description><link>https://udara.io/memory-for-ai</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://udara.io/memory-for-ai</guid><pubDate>Fri, 01 Nov 2024 17:21:39 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doubt and drive]]></title><description><![CDATA[When we reach for something bigger, we inevitably find ourselves navigating the tension between fear and confidence. They may feel like opposites, yet both have the power to influence our path– either anchoring us or urging us forward. The world of entrepreneurship is a fertile ground for the interplay of fear and…]]></description><link>https://udara.io/fear-and-confidence</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://udara.io/fear-and-confidence</guid><pubDate>Thu, 07 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Embeddings]]></title><description><![CDATA[Embeddings are a cornerstone in the world of machine learning, transforming the way machines interpret and process complex data. At their core, embeddings are numerical representations of information — such as words, sentences, or images — mapped into a . In other words, they translate data into…]]></description><link>https://udara.io/embeddings</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://udara.io/embeddings</guid><pubDate>Sat, 02 Dec 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Becoming through making]]></title><description><![CDATA[I spent most of my time at university searching for things I wanted to make and making sense of the things I cared about. I was in pursuit of knowledge, feelings, ideas, and ways to express myself. I wanted to improve my intuition, learn to recognize the work that energized me, and ultimately build strengths…]]></description><link>https://udara.io/entrepreneurship</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://udara.io/entrepreneurship</guid><pubDate>Sun, 20 Aug 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bioinformatics]]></title><description><![CDATA[Bioinformatics has established itself as a field that bridges biological research and computational technology. Its ever-growing importance in various scientific fields, from evolutionary biology to personalized medicine has made it a focal point of modern scientific research. The scope of bioinformatics is vast…]]></description><link>https://udara.io/science/intro-to-bioinformatics</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://udara.io/science/intro-to-bioinformatics</guid><pubDate>Sat, 29 Jul 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Homelab]]></title><description><![CDATA[A homelab is a specialized computing device or collection of devices designed to provide a controlled and customizable computing environment suitable for work, learning, or hobby purposes. My setup thus far includes most of my computing devices and network equipment in a rack that fits under my desk and sits on…]]></description><link>https://udara.io/home-lab-server-guide</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://udara.io/home-lab-server-guide</guid><pubDate>Wed, 22 Mar 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Design Engineering]]></title><description><![CDATA[I've been obsessed with integrating the processes of designing and programming when making software for over a decade. By considering design and implementation as one, I am able to anticipate the evolution of the design as I program. Frequently adapting as the product evolves and I learn in more detail. It's led me to…]]></description><link>https://udara.io/design-engineering</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://udara.io/design-engineering</guid><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Game of life]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Game of Life, also known as Conway's Game of Life, is a cellular automaton created by mathematician John Horton Conway. It is a zero-player game, meaning that its evolution is determined by its initial state, requiring no further input. Once you set the initial conditions, the system evolves entirely on its own…]]></description><link>https://udara.io/game-of-life</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://udara.io/game-of-life</guid><pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[A minimal IoT development stack]]></title><description><![CDATA[If you've ever asked yourself what a modern workflow for building IoT products from concept to design, code and hardware looks like, you'll find more than a couple of your questions answered here. For many years I've relied on Raspberry Pi hardware as my platform of choice for prototyping. But, my friend Pankaja, wh…]]></description><link>https://udara.io/hardware-development</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://udara.io/hardware-development</guid><pubDate>Sat, 22 Oct 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[3D printing]]></title><description><![CDATA[There's something magical about watching an idea materialize layer by layer. 3D printing has evolved from an expensive curiosity to a creative superpower that anyone can wield. And honestly? If you've been sitting on the fence about diving in, it's time to jump. The best way to learn 3D printing is to just start…]]></description><link>https://udara.io/3d-printing</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://udara.io/3d-printing</guid><pubDate>Sun, 04 Sep 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Phyllotactic Patterns]]></title><description><![CDATA[Everything has a purpose when you look at a plant, the shape of the leaves, the petals, the thorns on the stem, and the way it grows. When you look at how plants grow, you slowly realize that some patterns are visible from the outside. For example, the way the branches grow on a tree, the way the leaves grow on a…]]></description><link>https://udara.io/phylotaxis</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://udara.io/phylotaxis</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Jul 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humans will always do more than survive]]></title><description><![CDATA[The journey of growth, GPT-3 goodness, and why you should stop using the word 'interesting'.]]></description><link>https://udara.io/newsletter/edition-1</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://udara.io/newsletter/edition-1</guid><pubDate>Fri, 17 Dec 2021 21:21:39 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clew logs]]></title><description><![CDATA[These are old Clew build logs I used to write publicly on Futureland from 2021-2022, preserved mostly as-is. They’re snapshots from the messy middle of building the product. Clew was active between 2018-2022, and was acquired by Dropbox in 2022. 8, June 2021

I’ve been trying to document my…]]></description><link>https://udara.io/clew-logs</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://udara.io/clew-logs</guid><pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clew whitepaper]]></title><description><![CDATA[Clew is a modern online workspace for organizing and sharing all knowledge. It's a system that lets you organize and utilize different types of content like; notes, local files, todos, resources stored in external tools like Google Drive, Dropbox and Box, or content from tools like GitHub, Jira and Figma, all in one…]]></description><link>https://udara.io/clew-whitepaper</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://udara.io/clew-whitepaper</guid><pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[How this site works]]></title><description><![CDATA[Once again, like I tend to do every other year, I've gone and rebuilt my website and blog. It's something I tinker with every now and then to improve how I share my thoughts and ideas, or sometimes just to freshen up the look and feel. This time around, it's less about the design and more about updating how I write and…]]></description><link>https://udara.io/reinventing-this-blog</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://udara.io/reinventing-this-blog</guid><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Introduction to genetic algorithms]]></title><description><![CDATA[I recently came across a project that implemented the "Hello world" equivalent of a genetic algorithm. It essentially used a population of random words and "evolved" them until it made the word "Hello world". What a cool fu*king way to illustrate how genetic algorithms work.]]></description><link>https://udara.io/writing-a-genetic-algorithm</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://udara.io/writing-a-genetic-algorithm</guid><pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2020 02:37:50 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[How Clew is deployed]]></title><link>https://udara.io/how-clew-is-deployed</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://udara.io/how-clew-is-deployed</guid><pubDate>Tue, 11 Feb 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Customer support]]></title><description><![CDATA[In the scale of hearing *crickets* at zero to “Hey, no worries, we’ve shipped you the newer model at no cost” at ten; I’m currently experiencing a *I wish I was hearing crickets* support experience from a trillion dollar company, and they’re trying their best.]]></description><link>https://udara.io/on-scaling-good-customer-support</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://udara.io/on-scaling-good-customer-support</guid><pubDate>Thu, 27 Jun 2019 02:31:42 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Open source companies]]></title><description><![CDATA[Imagine if every single product your company generates is open source. Each line of code, blueprint, and theory maintained in version-controlled collaboration software such as Git, hosted on platforms like GitHub. Your team works transparently, brainstorming and troubleshooting in the public arena. Outsiders join the…]]></description><link>https://udara.io/open-source-companies</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://udara.io/open-source-companies</guid><pubDate>Thu, 20 Jun 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mitochondrial genome]]></title><description><![CDATA[In the field of genetics, mitochondria play a critical role in understanding an organism's evolution and function. During my time at university, I explored these aspects through the green alga Haematococcus lacustris, which is notable for producing the antioxidant astaxanthin.]]></description><link>https://udara.io/mitochondrial-genome</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://udara.io/mitochondrial-genome</guid><pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2019 18:09:57 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[The intuitive web]]></title><description><![CDATA[Search engines have become our gateways to the vast expanses of information that we add to on a daily basis. Traditionally, this process involves inputting queries into databases through straightforward programmatic expressions. However, the essence of creating a transformative search experience transcends technical…]]></description><link>https://udara.io/search-engines</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://udara.io/search-engines</guid><pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2019 13:21:09 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[If and only if]]></title><description><![CDATA[Understanding your values, acknowledging your motivations, and hedging them against the opportunities in front of you can make your early career a challenging road to pave. For some, it comes easy, they've always known what they wanted or needed to do. For others like myself, I'd compare the outlook to a three…]]></description><link>https://udara.io/iff</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://udara.io/iff</guid><pubDate>Mon, 11 Mar 2019 21:21:39 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Product teams]]></title><description><![CDATA[I spent last month talking to dozens of teams from companies like Shopify, Dribbble, Ritual, Pastel, and Microsoft as a part of making Clew. Here’re a few things that make good product teams great. 1. Good communication

Everyone needs to be on the same page. Good product teams rarely make top-down product decisions…]]></description><link>https://udara.io/how-teams-work</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://udara.io/how-teams-work</guid><pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time management]]></title><description><![CDATA[In high school, my free time was spent on making art, contributing to a magazine, writing, freelancing, designing, and sporadically working for startups. I largely considered these hobby-adjacent passion projects. Stuff that had no immediate impact on my main goals, but stuff I enjoyed and wanted to get better at doing…]]></description><link>https://udara.io/time-management</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://udara.io/time-management</guid><pubDate>Sat, 11 Aug 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Launching an app in 3 days]]></title><description><![CDATA[After multiple failed attempts, I finally committed myself to making a mobile app. In the past, I retreated to my comfort zone of full-stack web development, drawn by the ease of provisioning servers and the luxury of continuous delivery. Why? Because building for mobile felt frustrating and slow–atleast until I…]]></description><link>https://udara.io/rapid-app-development</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://udara.io/rapid-app-development</guid><pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Origins of timekeeping]]></title><description><![CDATA[Whether it's in the bottom-right-hand corner of your screen or the watch around your wrist, we all keep track of time. Most of our daily routines and activities depend on these devices– yet we rarely take a moment to consider the origin of timekeeping and the various devices humans have used for it throughout its…]]></description><link>https://udara.io/tick-tock-history</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://udara.io/tick-tock-history</guid><pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sleep better, live better]]></title><description><![CDATA[With our demanding workloads and countless distractions, sometimes you just can't help but send one last email, click the next link, or watch the next episode. You never get enough of it, and every hour we push into the night eats into the productivity of the next day. The cycle continues. We could argue and compromise…]]></description><link>https://udara.io/sleep-better-live-better</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://udara.io/sleep-better-live-better</guid><pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[How we sense reality]]></title><description><![CDATA[A lesson in Neuroscience.]]></description><link>https://udara.io/neuroscience-intro</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://udara.io/neuroscience-intro</guid><pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>