Ending 20 Year Old Friendships using Genetic Algorithms
10 April, 2025
Who would have thought getting people to rank their friends would cause any problems?
Hiding Images in XMP Metadata
5 October, 2024
In which misreading a @Foone post made me ask the question "What if we put an image in your image?"
Five Ways I Deal with Writer's Block
28 April, 2024
Some coping mechanisms I've developped over the years of staring at the blinking cursor.
On Mastodon-powered Blog Comments
23 February, 2024
This blog has a comment section and it's powered by ActivityPub pixies. I share some thoughts about the pros and cons.
Maybe don't use Blake3 on Short Inputs
15 January, 2024
I needed to hash some relatively short data (the length of an English word) and couldn't really find any benchmarks that fit my purpose. So, I ran them myself, and some of the results were actually kind of surprising to me.
Mr. Robot Hides Data on Audio Disks, And So Can You! (Season 3 Spoilers)
26 December, 2017
Mr. Robot hides RSA keys in images hidden in an audio CD, and it’s a little involved. I go through the step-by-step details, and some suggestions on how to improve it.
Quick n' Dirty Protein/DNA Low-Complexity Masking Implementation
30 January, 2017
I explain how to identify regions of DNA/Protein that repeat themselves or are made of few nucleic/amino acids, and implement a simple solution in Python.
Quantifying the Trump & Obama Inauguration Crowds
23 January, 2017
There's been much ado about how many people attempted the Trump & Obama inaugurations. I take a crack at estimating the crowd size with the power of math!