May 05, 2026
Running an AI agent like Hermes or OpenClaw on your machine gives it access to every file your user can read. truffleHog found credentials I'd forgotten about. Landlock, a kernel VFS sandbox, solves this with a 200-line C wrapper that blocks agent access to ~/.ssh, ~/.aws, and ~/.password-store at the system call level.
7 min read
security
landlock
linux
ai-agents
hermes
openclaw
secrets
credential-scanning
May 03, 2026
Decompilation of the Zepp (Huami) app reveals exact body composition formulas, six on-device ML models, a full HRV frequency-domain analyzer, and the Charge readiness pipeline.
13 min read
reverse-engineering
wearables
health-tech
amazfit
zepp
algorithms
machine-learning
signal-processing
March 01, 2025
The architecture and philosophy behind building a personal AI system with persistent memory, autonomous capabilities, and deep integration into daily digital life.
2 min read
ai
personal-computing
agents
memory-systems
February 20, 2023
Inside the revolution of digital twins—perfect digital mirrors of physical systems that predict, optimize, and control complex operations from factories to cities, powered by platforms like Palantir’s Foundry.
1 min read
digital-twins
industrial-ai
palantir
systems-thinking
January 15, 2023
How content-addressed storage systems like IPFS, Git, and cryptographic hash functions are reshaping data integrity, distribution, and decentralized application architecture.
2 min read
distributed-systems
ipfs
cryptography
storage
January 15, 2016
In January 2016, Cryptsy vanished overnight taking millions in customer funds. I lost a portfolio of altcoins I'd been speculating on since 2013 — back when buying Bitcoin meant wiring MoneyGrams to buy Second Life Lindens first.
5 min read
cryptocurrency
bitcoin
exchanges
history
personal
June 01, 2014
Before Soylent was a VC-backed startup shipping bottles to 7-Eleven, it was a chaotic forum thread where hundreds of people were mixing their own gray sludge from bulk powders and sharing blood test results in public Google Docs.
4 min read
soylent
nutrition
diy-bio
internet-culture
history