Nobody Prays in a Warm House
when comfort becomes the norm, the very things we used to use create comfort get left behind
Alec Jude Wilson
Alec Jude Wilson is a software engineer in New York building web and mobile software. Writing on engineering and craft, selected projects, and photography.
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The market won the argument: building a baseball model
Statball started as a nostalgia project: a cream-newsprint almanac that replays famous games pitch by pitch. A hundred commits later it had ingested every game since 1901, built its own discovery engine, and was betting real money on Kalshi. It did not go the way the model hoped. This is the build log.
Cracking the WHOOP 5.0 over Bluetooth
The WHOOP 4.0 gave up its data with a single Bluetooth write. The 5.0 slammed the door: an authenticated, encrypted bond before it would say a word. Here's how I got the biometric stream out anyway, byte for byte, without a sniffer or a jailbreak.
The LLM never writes the query: a declarative search layer over sensitive records
We have an internal assistant that searches a system of record for people — the most sensitive data we hold. Here's the query layer behind it: one definition per field, two phases, and a model that never gets to write a query itself.
Unsafe at Any Speed: 249,000 requests per second with Go
How far can you push Go's HTTP stack before it falls over? I built a benchmarking client that hit 249,000 requests per second on localhost — and stayed crash-proof the whole way.
The differences between Disney’s and Universal’s trash cans
Ten days in Orlando, two theme park empires, and one small detail that quietly gave away which company sweats the small stuff.
Hacking GETTR in 34 minutes
GETTR launched as Trump world's answer to Twitter. It took me 34 minutes to reverse-engineer its internal API — and the thing that finally stopped me wasn't GETTR at all.