Writings

Busy times I wanted to write for the blog for a while, in fact, I have quite a few items I want to cover and start discussing. Items like Personal Knowledge Management, rebuilding my site, thoughts on various trends - and how they have overlapped with other topics I have in mind like being more mindful on my time usage, and others. Unfortunately, I have also been very busy in life and so all that work has been put on …

The Tea App Right now there is an ongoing development of the Tea App having multiple data exposures. I don’t think I can give the details justice, so please look to 404media.co as they have been covering it quite well!

Initial Exposure by 404media

Second Exposure by 404media

The long and short, this app was purported to be a safe and private space for women to discuss dating. However, …

I’ve noticed in the news a lot more upticks on supply chain attacks that exploit people’s natural trust instinct. I want to try to help demystify what this all is for the average person, and hopefully that will help someone better understand what is going on and how they could try to protect themselves.

First, what is a supply chain attack? As the name suggests, it is when someone, we will call them the …

I was recently talking with some friends and we came onto an interesting subject regarding the newest generation of children. We were commenting on the fact that we now know people that are solely using AI chatbots to help raise their kids. ‘Oh my kid has a fever and isn’t eating what do I do?’ ‘When my kid is teething how do I stop them from biting things?’ etc.

As we all know, …

I recently saw a YouTube channel, Sun Knudsen, pop back up on feed after a bit of a hiatus. I’d found Sun’s channel way back when I was looking for best practices for hardening Firefox or other browsers and applications. I’d not really followed the channel and him coming back up made me curious to see what he has been up to.

Turns out he was working on a, then paid - now free, tool called …

I’ve been thinking of the concept (idea? methodology?) of vibe coding. It was only a recently coined term from February 2025, based on Wikipedia . Roughly, it is the use of AI tools to generate functional code without fully understanding or questioning it. You, as a “Vibe Coder”, would, in its simplest form, act as a Project Manager of sorts and speak to what you want. The tools would generate …

About two months ago I mentioned that I was updating my RSS workflow and decided to test out the new Reeder.app. I wanted to provide some updates on my thoughts and RSS process

Design Decisions The application itself is a bit of an opinionated look at how RSS, and other feeds in general, should be consumed. Rather than trying to capture everything and let you know what you have read, what you haven’t - …

I’ve been working a little on the backend of the site to see how I can improve things. My goals are to:

Make the site more robust. Have a little better insight into the usage of the site. Adding interactivity. Make it easier for me to post to the site. Making the site more robust Previously I was hosting my DNS with my registrar, but I have been working to split the two and migrate to different …

Recently there was news that the UK has forced Apple to remove encryption from their iCloud service, as seen on the BBC. However there is a bit more nuance to this.

Firstly, I think that the following video does a good job covering what exactly is meant by “Apple removing encryption.”

TLDW What appears to be happening is the following;

The UK has demanded a backdoor access to …

It has been about a week since the most people became aware of Deepseek AI. Although Deepseek AI’s r1 model initially released on the 20th went largely unnoticed, it gained attention after impacting the stock market the following week. During that week a lot has happened; from confusion to dismissals to speculations and concerns. I’ve been asked by a decent number of people what I thought of this …

Over the years, I’ve had an on-and-off relationship with RSS. Despite the rise of algorithms and curated news apps, I still believe RSS remains one of the best ways to build a personalized feed that you own.

Recently, I’ve been reevaluating how RSS fits into my workflows. To better understand what I need from it now, I’ve reflected on what has worked for me in the past—and what hasn’t.

Google Reader …

There’s been a few articles (NPR, Wired) recently regarding the use of AI and how it will provide new tools for scammers to better trick people by posing as someone they know. A lot of these articles have very helpful techniques, but I want to cover how people could realistically adopt the techniques.

Because as we know, strong defenses are only useful if they actually get used.

First let’s start …

Introduction Unfortunately, it’s highly likely that your information will be exposed at some point. This has become a common enough occurrence that instead of asking, “If it happens, what do I do?” it’s more prudent to ask, “When it happens, have I prepared enough to minimize the impact?”

I’ve considered this from various angles, but one method of protection worth …

Introduction Info: This is not a full step by step guide, but one that can be used in combination with the standard guides available! Also I plan to update this after some time, so it will get better. 🙈 For those curious this guide is how I got this site up and running using a combination of Github, as the deployment automation and hosting of the site, and Hugo, a static website generator tool, using the Congo theme. …

Introduction The classic initialization of any project always ends up beginning with those words. I’ve decided to take another shot at curating a digital space for myself. In the past I have tried to create websites using various frameworks and tools, but they always became more work than I felt they were worth. Looking back, I’ve always tried to create something more complex than I needed. Hoping to grow …