Flock Cameras and the Convexity of Mass Surveillance
9 min read
fat tails, convex harm, and surveillance software
Buried Treasure
Technical writings and thoughts by Johannes Naylor
Blog Posts
Cafés of Barcelona
2 min read
An amateur analysis of the coffee shops in Barcelona
Modernizing a Wine Recommender with LanceDB
4 min read
Rebuilding Wine in a Million with serverless compute, LanceDB, and streaming recommendations
Less Music, More Thinking
3 min read
Why Your Headphones Might Be Blocking Your Best Thoughts
The Deaf Composer
3 min read
AI agents can't listen to music (yet)
What Makes a Good Hackathon
7 min read
How to organize a positive-sum hackathon people actually want to attend
On American Unity
5 min read
Localism, federalism, and why a functioning national government still matters / Rebuilding the National Government Using First Principles
How does DRM work?
7 min read
What happens in your browser when you stream Spotify or Netflix / The tyranny of Digital Rights Management
Make an EXE file and give it to me
1 min read
Improving on the incredible 'sherlock' python package with a performant static binary / Hunt down social media accounts by username across social networks
Per què Barcelona és la capital del Music Tech a Europe?
5 min read
On la recerca d’avantguarda troba la festa - el futur híbrid de la Music Tech.
I Launched a Website Builder That Costs Pennies Instead of $25/mo
4 min read
On fast fashion software, pay-per-generation pricing, and escaping SaaS rent
Should you rewrite your machine learning pipelines in Zig?
6 min read
Writing audio ML preprocessing pipelines in Zig to get orders of magnitude speedups from native ffmpeg bindings?
Trading Bot Backtests are Lying to You
10 min read
Why most algorithmic trading backtests are theater / not all crashes are the same / how to do better
Cafés in Williamsburg BK
1 min read
A amateur analysis of the coffee shops in Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Introducing Saint John™
6 min read
The First Android Home Screen with a Built In LLM Agent
I'm leaving Udio
2 min read
Letting go of my $500k software job and building in the age of fast fashion software
Migrating Off Hashnode
2 min read
From Blogging Platforms to YouTube's Moat.
SELECT * FROM image.png
6 min read
Learn how png-db uses steganography and the flexible PNG file format to embed and retrieve JSON data within image files.
Protect Your Database from Cursor
2 min read
a database proxy to defend against AI
Der Sprachlernprozess
5 min read
Meine Reise zum Deutschlernen
Building a Simple AI DAW, Part 2: MCP and Agents
21 min read
A semi-technical deep-dive into building a robust AI audio agent. Learn how a rust-based streaming engine and the Model Context Protocol (MCP) agent
Query Google Sheets with SQL
2 min read
Turn Google Sheets into a Database with Go
i made csv-parser 1.3x faster (sometimes)
7 min read
Building a Rust-powered drop-in replacement that actually works
Observability in Audius’s Decentralized System
5 min read
I just paid off all my student loans
3 min read
Introducing Housefly: A Playground for Web Scraping
2 min read
Learn Web Scraping with Hands-On Challenges and Real Websites
Build a Simple Ai DAW
14 min read
Program an Ai Audio Manipulation Agent with Python & Langchain
null is worse than you think
6 min read
why javascript has null and undefined
Create a Wine Recommender Using NLP on AWS
10 min read
Use AWS SageMaker to create sentence-BERT embeddings and run realtime Nearest Neighbors inferences
Discover Hidden Secrets in Git Repos with Rust
11 min read
Why you can't just delete passwords from a git repo
How to Manipulate Images on a GPU
18 min read
Using C++ and NVIDIA's CUDA
Creating a Twitter Bot in Go
11 min read
My Switch Away From Python
10 min read