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Notes.

Notes on the things I work on: privacy engineering, infrastructure, audio production, and the tools that come out of all of it. Occasional, considered.

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  1. May 2026·Operations·In draft

    Private meshes, bare metal, and the work behind sovereignty

    Notes on running production infrastructure on bare metal: high-availability failover design, private mesh networking, CVE response, monitoring. The operational depth that turns sovereign hosting from a marketing claim into a working system.

  2. May 2026·Privacy·In draft

    Pairwise pseudonymous IDs, the hard way

    Building a deterministic-but-uncorrelatable subject identifier system for OIDC at ConsentKeys, using HKDF with per-app salts. Notes on a problem the spec leaves to implementers.

  3. March 2026·Infrastructure·In draft

    Sovereign hosting outside the US CLOUD Act

    On the engineering and jurisdictional trade-offs of building data-residency-first cloud infrastructure for privacy-focused businesses. Why Petrichor lives in Canada.

  4. December 2025·Audio·In draft

    Programming drums that don't sound programmed

    Six months of reverse-engineering how to fake a drummer in Ableton. Velocity sampling, grid drift, and other small lies that survive close listening.

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