About Me

I'm a developer at heart.

Perspectives

• Technology isn't magic, not even generative AI
• Computers were faster when we built for the CPU and not the browser
• Apple knows what you want but if you don't want to be exploited you'll have to intuit their lessons yourself
• The web ecosystem is built on a load of hacks and the platform as we know it is much worse than it could be. To this end, I think TypeScript is a mistake that highlights a real problem space.

Projects

Some things I can show you:

LineRider Advanced

• 2015 - 2019
• Website: LineRider Advanced (git)
• Spiritual successor to a deterministic physics flash game.
• Built with raw OpenGL / no game engine. The spirit of the project reverse engineered the physics of the original flash game.
• As part of this project I had to fork the Gwen UI library originally by Garry Newman in gwen-lra.
  At 188 commits, +36,221/-10,248 lines, this was a pretty deep dive.
  Far from the only time I've gotten deep into the technicals of UI display, though.
• Due to the deterministic nature of physics in this project, floating-point serialization had to be exact. To support compatibility with another project, I implemented the Google double-float conversion procedure in a Utf8Json pull request

html-compose

• Python Library: GitHub / pypi and documentation
• Thesis statement: Add just a little abstraction to the HTML generation process and you can solve friction in writing markup.
• Fun fact: This website is built with html-compose.

Misc

• KDE Improvements
  • Activity switch hotkeys extension - mimic missing i3 features
  • Rofi based Keyboard shortcut selector. I built this because I like tiling but not memorizing the keys for every layout.
• SaltStack TLS CA
  • Orchestation for TLS certificates in distributed systems

Proprietary Work

I can't show you much here, but I can tell you

Why go with a vendor, when you can go with me?

I have done:

• Scaled up Wazuh Integration with a bunch of bespoke use-case specific code
• Integrated "big data" monitoring pipelines where sometimes a vendor worked and sometimes I had to get my own hands dirty.
• Webauthn based security gateways mandating specific hardware security keys & integration with a custom PAM module for SSH 2fa
• Hypervisor & platform R&D, most recently Incus
• Little small-purpose-high-impact workflow sites

Other projects I've done

No sources here. Wouldn't wanna get in trouble.

• Multiplayer anticheat reverse-engineering and bypass.
  • Keywords: Themida, heartbeat emulation, VMProtect, CRC patches
• Multiplayer game packet editing tools.
  • Reminder to never trust the client
  • Keywords: Currency generation, my first SaaS, building my own anti-piracy