Writing & Essays
Technical breakdowns on cybersecurity, authentication architecture, and founder psychology.
Tokens Are Not the Best Methods for Authenticating a User's Request
Why storing authentication tokens in localStorage exposes users to critical XSS account takeovers, and how production systems implement short-lived access tokens, refresh token rotation, and HTTP-only cookies.
Get a Custom Email Address for FREE Using Cloudflare + Gmail
Stop paying $72+/year for Google Workspace or Microsoft 365 just for custom domain branding. A step-by-step guide to configuring Cloudflare Email Routing with Gmail SMTP and SPF DNS records.
The Psychology of Entrepreneurs: Why You Do Not Need an "Entrepreneurial Personality"
Debunking the myth of the hyper-confident founder. Why cynicism (realism), insecurity (vigilance), and ethical ruthlessness (resolve) are the real habits that build enduring companies.
Supply Chain Infiltration & The GitHub Breach: How TeamPCP Poisoned CI/CD Pipelines
An investigative breakdown of how the threat group TeamPCP weaponized poisoned VS Code extensions and tainted container images to scrape build server memory and exfiltrate 4,000 GitHub repositories.
How to Get What You Want Every Time: The Reality of Strategic Negotiation
Why splitting the difference is a failure of imagination. How understanding asymmetric value, psychological leverage, and non-linear incentives unlocks superior outcomes in engineering and business.
Unmasking the Dark Side of Tech: Exposing Fraudulent Threats to Startups
An investigative exposé examining deceptive claims and fraudulent practices in the emerging tech ecosystem, and how early-stage founders and engineers can protect themselves from predatory actors.