Thoughts
Notes on software engineering, distributed systems, and the future of human productivity.
Sealed in Plain Sight
A price on a page is a fact someone paid to produce, sitting in public for anything to copy. I'm building my own anti-bot seal to change what that copy costs, and this is how it works.
How a Website Decides You're a Bot
A defender's-eye tour of how modern anti-bot systems actually work in 2026, from passive TLS and HTTP fingerprints to an obfuscated client that probes your browser, server-side ML scoring, and tokens that expire in seconds. Plus an honest split of what a small team can build and what it has to rent.