Posts:

• Making My Notes Useful Again

  My notes stopped helping when keeping them up to date became another thing I couldn't manage. I've been using local AI and n8n to reduce that overhead.

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• Coding Agents Are Opening Up New Opportunities in Legacy Codebases

  Coding agents can change which engineering projects make economic sense. GitHub's Copilot runtime migration is a useful starting point for looking at the migrations, upgrades, and modernization work we keep deferring.

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• Why PDFs Are a Security Nightmare

  PDFs are a security nightmare because they became a mandatory part of online business while they accumulated more features and technical debt over time.

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• Exporting Book Metadata from Apple Books

  I've always used Apple's Books (formerly iBooks) for my reading. One issue I've always run into is no export functionality. I wanted a list of books I already owned, and there was no easy way to do it since I always purchase DRM-free ebooks. This post describes how and why I wrote a simple program to export the metadata for my books.

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• macOS Terminal One-liners: When Free Costs Your Keychain

  Terminal one-liners have become a very popular attack vector for compromising macOS systems. I break down how this one particular one-liner works, and how it exfiltrates your digital life.

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• When Productivity Becomes Punishment: Rebooting My Life After Burnout

  After years of equating output with worth, I hit the limits of human capacity. This is the story of collapsing under chronic stress, rebooting my life in Spain, and learning that healing means doing differently—not doing more.

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