It is the end of the world and I am here to take you home
I see the sun. And even if I do not see the sun, I know that it is. And to know that the sun is — that is already living
Hi, I'm Wiggin
go@wiggin.devI'm an animal rights activist and a design engineer at Coinbase, working on frontend architecture and platform services for Coinbase Developer Platform.
Work
Previously at Meta, Google, Datadog, and the Mellon Foundation. My work at Mellon won awards from 365: AIGA Year in Design (Inside Mellon, 2024) and the Anthem Awards (Reel Talk, 2025).
Life
I organize with Direct Action Everywhere in North Carolina.
My husband and I live in Durham with two dogs (Lupin and Ruby) and a cat (Morty). I cook a lot of vegan food and read sci-fi like Hyperion and Children of Time.
Elsewhere
Reading
Where the goblins came from
How goblin outputs spread in AI models: timeline, root cause, and fixes behind personality-driven quirks in GPT-5 behavior.
The components of agent memory
For Claude to learn from experience, it has to decide what's worth remembering before it knows what's next. Here's how "dreaming" helps it organize memory and correct mistakes.
Animal Liberation in One Generation, Revisited
This is a report from the frontlines.
As Much Truth as One Can Bear
To Speak Out About the World as It Is, Says James Baldwin, Is the Writer's Job