2026-07-19 I shot my passwords across the internet. Pt.2 of the password manager The Paladin's mobile chapter — one QR scan, decryption in the phone's browser, a knight that dresses for the occasion, and two bugs that taught me more than the feature did. 2026-07-15 I can't even read what the coolest tool I made makes. Build journal for pw-manager — leaving browser password storage for one encrypted file, via a Rust detour that produced seven lines and a lock with no forgiveness built in. 2026-07-07 My bots lie to me when I sleep Build journal for spider-base — the hard part of an unattended bot isn't the scraping, it's that you're not there when it breaks. 2026-07-03 The cheapest file is a Markdown file A little self-hosted service that turns any file into Markdown, so my LLM agents stop paying for formatting they never read — assembled mostly from tools I didn't write. 2026-05-20 A 403, a fake browser, and my own session cookie Building a desktop notifier for my claude.ai usage — and learning the hard way that Cloudflare fingerprints the TLS handshake, not just the headers.