Everything I own, owned

Turning Claude loose on the firmware of five USB and WiFi peripherals, and finding a command shell in a microphone, a defeatable webcam activity LED, and unauthenticated memory writes over the network.

My favorite nonfiction books about cults, scams, and schemes

Decoding silent reading from non-invasive EEG

Abstract page for arXiv paper 2608.20186: Decoding silent reading from non-invasive EEG

How Complex Systems Fail (1998)

A website for debloated open source alternatives

open-source replacements for bloated vendor software

My agent.md to improve LLM-assisted code quality

What Is a Harness?

An agent harness is a piece of software that provides an environment for an AI model to operate within.

Google Workspace thinks my domain is an email provider (2025)

Migrating a Synology NAS to a UniFi UNAS Pro 8 with Robocopy, SMB Multichannel

I’ve had a Synology NAS for a very long time, and recently I started moving its ...

How I find problems to solve as a staff engineer

How listening broadly turns everyday problems into useful project ideas.,How listening broadly turns everyday problems into useful project ideas.

AI and Infrastructure Engineering

How I actually use AI in day-to-day infrastructure work, and why I think it's the next layer of abstraction rather than a replacement for the engineer - the same way Kubernetes was for Ansible.

Declarative WebGPU with S-Expressions

WebGPU wiring you can ship and share

Why Sal Khan't: On Learning by Making but Teaching by Telling

Two pieces crossed my feed recently, both about Sal Khan and the AI tutoring revolution that wasn’t. The first was Matt Barnum’s reported piece in Chalkbeat…

Explain it to me like I'm ten

In 2012, the creator of the xkcd cartoon Randall Munroe unveiled Up Goer Five — a detailed diagram of the Saturn V rocket, annotated using only the most common 1,000 (sorry, “ten hundred”) words in the dictionary. It was a viral hit, as was the follow-up book, Thing Explainer (2015), and it produced an intriguing…

Malware infects Android-based automotive head unit firmware

Kaspersky expert has discovered new Android malware designed to serve ads and build a proxy botnet. It’s delivered through legitimate software for DoFun head units.

AI Chip Architectures

A look at AI Chip Architectures. NVIDIA, AMD, TPUs, Trainium, Groq, Cerebras.

Kodak DC50 now usable on the Apple II

It is now possible and easy to use a Kodak DC50 camera with an Apple II.

Anthropic's best AI model struggles to attract users as cheaper tools thrive

Implementation of GPT-2 in pure CMake

Implementation of the GPT-2 model in pure CMake. Contribute to AlpinDale/gpt2.cmake development by creating an account on GitHub.

Rural Village in Spain Is Welcoming Digital Nomads with Open Arms

As Spain's major cities struggle with overtourism, 8,000 rural villages are at risk of total depopulation. Can remote workers help bridge the gap?