Writing
Infrequent, and only about things I’ve actually hit.
Sep 13, 2026 · 10 min read
I installed Linux to look clever
The honest reason I switched wasn't philosophy or performance. I couldn't afford hardware that ran GTA 5, I noticed the people I thought were brilliant all used Linux, and I wanted to look like one of them. Then I deleted my own Windows partition.
Sep 12, 2026 · 8 min read
I learned to program on a keypad phone
My school had a computer lab and an IT period. Nobody taught the programming chapters. So I learned JavaScript on a Nokia 2626 with 2MB of storage, because it was the only machine I had.
Sep 11, 2026 · 6 min read
An injection vector in Laravel's index hints
forceIndex() and inRandomOrder() passed their arguments straight into compiled SQL. The patch shipped in v12.48.0 — but Laravel didn't issue a CVE, and they had a reasonable argument for that.