Flock Cameras and the Convexity of Mass Surveillance
fat tails, convex harm, and surveillance software
Johannes Naylor's Blog
Blog by Johannes Naylor covering software engineering, language, and more
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Cafés of Barcelona
An amateur analysis of the coffee shops in Barcelona
Modernizing a Wine Recommender with LanceDB
Rebuilding Wine in a Million with serverless compute, LanceDB, and streaming recommendations
Less Music, More Thinking
Why Your Headphones Might Be Blocking Your Best Thoughts
The Deaf Composer
AI agents can't listen to music (yet)
What Makes a Good Hackathon
How to organize a positive-sum hackathon people actually want to attend
On American Unity
Localism, federalism, and why a functioning national government still matters / Rebuilding the National Government Using First Principles
How does DRM work?
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
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?
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
On fast fashion software, pay-per-generation pricing, and escaping SaaS rent
Should you rewrite your machine learning pipelines in Zig?
Writing audio ML preprocessing pipelines in Zig to get orders of magnitude speedups from native ffmpeg bindings?
Trading Bot Backtests are Lying to You
Why most algorithmic trading backtests are theater / not all crashes are the same / how to do better
Cafés in Williamsburg BK
A amateur analysis of the coffee shops in Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Introducing Saint John™
The First Android Home Screen with a Built In LLM Agent
I'm leaving Udio
Letting go of my $500k software job and building in the age of fast fashion software
Migrating Off Hashnode
From Blogging Platforms to YouTube's Moat.
SELECT * FROM image.png
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
a database proxy to defend against AI
Der Sprachlernprozess
Meine Reise zum Deutschlernen
Building a Simple AI DAW, Part 2: MCP and Agents
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
Turn Google Sheets into a Database with Go
i made csv-parser 1.3x faster (sometimes)
Building a Rust-powered drop-in replacement that actually works
Observability in Audius’s Decentralized System
I just paid off all my student loans
Introducing Housefly: A Playground for Web Scraping
Learn Web Scraping with Hands-On Challenges and Real Websites
Build a Simple Ai DAW
Program an Ai Audio Manipulation Agent with Python & Langchain
null is worse than you think
why javascript has null and undefined
Create a Wine Recommender Using NLP on AWS
Use AWS SageMaker to create sentence-BERT embeddings and run realtime Nearest Neighbors inferences
Discover Hidden Secrets in Git Repos with Rust
Why you can't just delete passwords from a git repo
How to Manipulate Images on a GPU
Using C++ and NVIDIA's CUDA