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I Accidentally Built A Better Flock Device (to monitor data centers)

April, 2026
This project addresses the challenge of capturing audio from remote nodes while prioritizing privacy. A remote monitor deployed in public capturing raw audio data with no guardrails is functionally a surveillance device. To maximize privacy and offer a lower cost DIY option to record audio, this project implements Lora for audio transfer, which does not have the bandwidth to send high quality raw audio.

How Grocery Stores Will Use Your Face To Charge You More

April, 2026
Electronic shelf labels are the last piece in the surveillance pricing pipeline. They enable in-person stores to adopt practices of e-commerce giants.

I demonstrate how easy it is to use video surveillance data to track shoppers by creating my own electronic shelf label that changes prices based on detected faces that are linked to shopper personas

Going on the offensive against AI crawlers

Dec, 2025
How I created an AI honeypot to attempt to influence LLM training data of future models.

Turn your old gaming pc into a public server

Oct, 2025
Moving my website from the cloud to my home Ubuntu server. I'll walk through the motivations behind the move, and how you can migrate your apps out of the cloud to home-prem.

LLM Structured Outputs Were Too Slow (Building a side project for a side project)

Aug, 2025
When your LLM structured responses are too slow, it's time to build a side project. By streaming structured outputs and incrementally parsing the results I speed up one of the slowest parts of my app.

I broke rule #1 of building a Startup SaaS

Jun, 2025
Don't build your small SaaS on Kubernetes! At least not if you don't already have experience with Kubernetes, and if it doesn't align with your career goals. However, In the right context Kubernetes can be a great option that speeds up your delivery.

ODBC From Scratch With Python

Nov, 2024 Walk through the process of connecting to a database, using the database's protocol, creating a simple ODBC driver, and writing a PEP 249 connector all in python.