Thoughts
Nobody reads the terms. I do now. Help
Oct 6, 2026
· not technical
Nobody reads the terms. I do now. Help
Cyber law ruined clicking "I agree" for me
cyber law, privacy
· technical
I built a finance app with no server on purpose
No accounts, no analytics, no backend. Just my money data on my own devices
swift, local-first, privacy
· technical
Copilot was hiding inside the "no AI" IDE
We needed a coding quiz IDE with zero AI. Turns out the AI was built in
security, vscode, education
· technical
My fine-tuned model lost to regex and I'm fine
Fine-tuning made recall worse. The gate I built to catch that actually caught it
ml, evaluation, privacy
· technical
Stop writing [REDACTED]
Redaction makes AI dumber. Realistic fake values work way better, as long as you swap the real ones back
privacy, llm, phi
· technical
The pager should be hard to set off
If your alerts wake people up for nothing, they'll ignore the one that matters. The rules I landed on
on-call, monitoring, sre
· technical
Two bugs, one OAuth handshake, and a 303 that saved me
Getting my site working as an AI connector broke in two boring ways. Both were redirects
oauth, mcp, http
· not technical
Hackathons are group projects with worse sleep
Won one, placed third in another. Notes on what actually decided it
hackathons, teams
· not technical
I vibe-coded cybersecurity little too hard now and I can't stop it!
Privacy law is just the rules for who's allowed to know stuff about you. Once you see it, it's everywhere
cyber law, privacy