why old bugs never die
the same four vulnerability classes have been getting people breached since 1988. a working theory on why they keep coming back, and the one thing that actually kills them
field notes, build logs, & working theories. sorted by newest first
the world contains an absurd amount of abandoned code
a short look at what happens to software after people stop maintaining it, using three real pieces of source code that are still sitting online.
machine learning, predictions, & where AI is headed
machine learning, agents, & why the future of AI probably has less to do with chatbots and more to do with intelligence quietly becoming part of everything we use.
Four score and seven years ago (not really), there was a man named Ramanujan
Ramanujan, 1729, & why math is a lot more interesting when it stops feeling like homework and starts feeling like you're uncovering something that was already there.
building this place (whatever this is)
a short note on the architecture & intent behind this site