updated 2026-08-20

Neel

engineer in curaçao. i make software that was written fast hold up in production.

i take code that got written fast and make it survive production. the paid work goes through antillean and everything else is here.

i won best screenplay at the 48hr film festival curaçao in 2024 and i have journaled every day since 2016.

now

56,458,947,949 tokens since 2026-04-06 and $37,733.37 at api list prices. flat-rate plans so that is a replacement cost and not a bill.
burnt through 30M tokens ($39.18) this week, GPT 6 Astra doing most of it.
1.8M tokens on 2026-10-04, across 32 requests.
19 commits in the last seven days across 2 repositories.
320 conversations and 4,475 messages on claude.ai since 2025-04-09.
7 pages here. 1.4k words of them.
listening to Gravity off Continuum, John Mayer, 2006.

antillean. audits and delivery. the firm.
kolekshon. free public tools built on curaçao's own records. papiamentu first. not launched yet.
villageships. agents that build open source for NGOs and then keep maintaining it. nothing public yet.
hum. brown noise that starts itself when your agent is running and stops when you are done. no permission prompts. no network code anywhere in it. mit.
neel.md. this site. every page is a markdown file and the HTML is generated from it.

writing. numbered positions written to be argued with, and the shorter notes behind them.
collections. a few reading paths through the above.
shelf. the books this all came out of.
archive. all of it. newest first.