new Redistributing Billions in the Neopets Economy #internet-history#reverse-engineering#security#engineering-ethics Over six months in 2014, a network of over 200 Neopets players ran software I made to record 48,000 snapshots of a single shop's inventory. We saw total item flow valued at over 6.5B Neopoints, built an autobuyer that generated roughly 167M NP in profit, before the project abruptly ended amid… 
Claudity - a thinking partner for Claude Code #side-projects#agents#claude-code#ai I've spent the past few days building Claudity, a Claude Code plugin that acts as a thinking partner while you build: it asks the questions an architect would ask, pushes back on the ones you haven't thought about, and records the answers and decisions as markdown in your repo. On Tuesday I… 
Foreign Trivia - free wordle inspired language trivia #side-projects#languages I made a small daily trivia game called Foreign Five. It gives you five questions a day, each in a different language. You can tap any word to translate it, but if you do, it shows up in your shared result. A few weeks ago I wrote about the first version of this, Foreign Trivia, where you pick one… 
Cheap agents, alumni shirts, and Elias Thorne #agents#trust#ai#mode-collapse cited in The email arrived in my inbox at 3:20 AM this morning, with the subject line "getlikewise.ai DMARC is at p=none." The from-name was Bruce . The signature, four lines down, was Benjamin . The opener summarized the project at that domain accurately enough that the agent had clearly read the public… 
Froot Loops and a graphics card #vb6#early-career#etl Published on US Mother's Day, 2026. The email arrived on the 4th of December 2006, forwarded by my dad from Bill, an engineer at the company my dad was contracting at. I was 14. Bill had attached a zip file containing an HTML page with PHP scriptlets embedded inline, written by someone at the…