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Sometimes I write about (mostly tech related) things. Sometimes I even post them.

Disclaimer: I over-use em dashes, and have been doing so for longer than LLMs have been around. For better or worse, I don’t use LLMs for any part of my writing process.

• Converting FunctionTrace from C to Rust (August 2025)
• Initial thoughts on China (May 2025)
• A better banking setup (August 2024)
• Building an Android app using React Native and Nix (February 2023)
• How secret are your secrets? (November 2022)
• Third party dependencies - worth the risk? (November 2022)
• You're storing passwords wrong (May 2022)
• Advent of Code 2021 in Rust before Python can start (February 2022)
• Quickly optimizing Python code with FunctionTrace (October 2021)
• Single-use functions - you aren't gonna need them (June 2021)
• Code reviews for fun and profit (April 2021)
• Solving a puzzlehunt with Satisfiability Modulo Theories (March 2021)
• Building FunctionTrace, a graphical Python profiler (May 2020)
• Using your standard 2FA app with Steam (October 2019)