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Thoughts on tech projects, cybersecurity, infrastructure, and things I'm learning.
Get a weekly email with what I learned, summaries of new posts, and direct links. No spam, unsubscribe anytime.
How I made each weekly digest newsletter unique by using Claude Haiku to generate two-paragraph intros with historical tech facts, holiday callouts, and graceful fallback when the API fails.
How I built a full newsletter system for this site with secure subscriptions, HMAC-verified unsubscribes, branded HTML emails, and a Vercel Cron that sends a weekly digest every Monday. Includes the WAF rule that broke everything and the firewall tightening that followed.