How a Corrected Rule Stays Corrected
An AI assistant can diagnose its own repeated logic mistake perfectly, yet keep making it. What actually stopped the loop wasn’t a better prompt.
I Couldn’t Use Google’s reCAPTCHA — So I Built My Own Bot Challenge for Clearnet, Tor, and I2P
Every mainstream bot defence needs to fingerprint your browser or phone home to a third party. We needed one mechanism that works the same on clearnet, Tor, and I2P — here’s the incident that forced the question and what we built instead.
AI-Assisted Development vs the Old Outsourcing Model
Everyone’s sharing AI coding horror stories. Here’s a contrarian data point from someone who outsourced dev work before AI, and builds with it now.
I audited a real open-source steganography tool. Here’s every mistake it made
I audited a real open-source steganography tool’s source. Three mistakes — and the worst one needs no password and no statistics, just knowing where to look.
Why I Built Official SDKs for the snapWONDERS API
Several developers reaching out to integrate the snapWONDERS API kept surfacing the same nuance: the file upload step. Here’s why I built official Python, JavaScript, PHP and Go SDKs to fix it.
Benford’s Law: Detecting AI-Generated Images Without AI
An 88-year-old fraud-detection law, applied to JPEG compression math, flags AI-generated and heavily edited photos — no AI detection model required at all.