A Day In The Life Of...
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Last night an AI saved my life. Well, not literally, and not even last night. But I really believe it saved the browser engine project I’ve been working on for years. We are steadily going through all …
Read more →I have always lived by the mantra “Make things work, make things right, make things fast”. It’s a great way to approach software development, and it has served me well over the years. Lately, though, …
Read more →Elliptic curves often feel like mathematical magic. Somehow, with relatively simple arithmetic operations on points, we can build secure cryptographic systems. But the underlying ideas are actually …
Read more →For years I had a small private page on my machine with a bunch of hacky tools for day-to-day crypto work. Hashing a string, base64 encoding something, generating a random key. Nothing fancy. Just …
Read more →There is a lot going on in the world regarding age verification. Why does every website or operating system (and possibly later: smart appliances like your fridge??) need to know your age? While I …
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