writing
I like to share my writing, usually a mixture of technical observations, software stories and tales from my past. You can find more short-form content on my socials.
new Redistributing Billions in the Neopets Economy Over six months in 2014, a network of over 200 Neopets players ran software I made to record 48,000 snapshots of a single shop's inventory. We saw total item flow valued at over 6.5B Neopoints, built an autobuyer that generated roughly 167M NP in profit, before the project abruptly ended amid… 
Policy aimed at the wrong layer Last night, Anthropic was forced by the US government via export controls to shut down API access to their newly released highly intelligent models, Fable and Mythos. The directive reportedly followed another company demonstrating a way around the models' safeguards - though an independent security… 
Claudity - a thinking partner for Claude Code I've spent the past few days building Claudity, a Claude Code plugin that acts as a thinking partner while you build: it asks the questions an architect would ask, pushes back on the ones you haven't thought about, and records the answers and decisions as markdown in your repo. On Tuesday I… 
Foreign Trivia - free wordle inspired language trivia I made a small daily trivia game called Foreign Five. It gives you five questions a day, each in a different language. You can tap any word to translate it, but if you do, it shows up in your shared result. A few weeks ago I wrote about the first version of this, Foreign Trivia, where you pick one… 
Cheap agents, alumni shirts, and Elias Thorne cited in The email arrived in my inbox at 3:20 AM this morning, with the subject line "getlikewise.ai DMARC is at p=none." The from-name was Bruce . The signature, four lines down, was Benjamin . The opener summarized the project at that domain accurately enough that the agent had clearly read the public…