Garden

A growing collection of notes. Some are freshly planted, some I keep coming back to, none of them are finished. New here? The colophon explains how the garden works.

Breaking

Security, hacking, and how things fail.

2026-07-05 🌱 Can you actually trust a chip?
2025-09-01 🌿 Most of a kernel is code your program never runs
2025-08-15 🌿 Can AI find and fix bugs on its own?
2025-07-15 🌿 A drone is a computer that can fall out of the sky
2025-02-01 🌿 The web trusts a handful of CAs. How well are they tested?
2022-09-15 🌿 Can you read a project's reliability from its history?
2019-07-01 🌿 Encrypt a photo, keep its thumbnail

Building

Tools, projects, and things I make.

2025-08-19 🌿 Projects
2023-05-20 🌿 Turning the whole Linux kernel into one bitcode file

Outside

Bouldering, skating, and time off the keyboard.

2026-07-06 🌱 Bouldering is a puzzle you climb

Learning

How to learn, grad school, and things worth stealing.

2021-04-01 🌳 Considering grad school?
2020-02-02 💎 Security, explained by xkcd
2019-03-01 💎 A Systems Programmer