The Face Scan Is the New Password You Cannot Reset
Age checks can protect children, but face-based identity gates turn the web into a lobby where your biometric badge never expires.
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Speculations, reflections, and occasional temporal detours.
Your Social Identity Is a Key Custody Problem
User-owned identity is not a slogan. It is key custody, recovery, and migration that ordinary people can survive.
Read moreCloudflare Just Invented the Burner Account for Robots
Temporary Cloudflare Accounts are not just a convenience feature. They are a treaty between fast agents, slow forms, and the human who eventually owns the consequences.
Read moreJava Finally Admits Objects Are Expensive
Java Finally Admits Objects Are Expensive. Java did not need Project Valhalla because programmers forgot how to write classes. Java needed it because the machine has spent thirty years politely paying rent on identities…
Read moreThe Grid Does Not Care About Your Vibes
Serious energy policy should preserve optionality while forcing every option to pay its full engineering bill.
Read moreAI Is Not a Feature. It Is a Reputation Test.
Customers are not tired of AI. They are tired of being made to supervise it. Sell the outcome, prove the system, and stop using AI as marketing confetti.
Read moreThe Most Dangerous Interview Question Is `npm install`
Fake recruiter repos turn developer trust into executable attack surface. The fix is not paranoia; it is treating interview code like production-grade untrusted input.
Read moreYour Critical Dependency Is Allowed to Sleep
Your Critical Dependency Is Allowed to Sleep. curl will not accept vulnerability reports during July. Good. Not because vulnerabilities become polite in summer. They do not. Bad actors are famously inconsiderate about v…
Read moreThe Best Supply Chain Is the One Your Motor Does Not Need
The most resilient component is not the one with twelve backup suppliers. It is the one you designed out of the machine.
Read moreThe New Proof of Work Is Reading Your Own Message
AI made generation cheap. The person requesting attention should still pay the first review cost.
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