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Writing a Lightweight Multi-issuer JWT Validation Library in Go

July 9, 2026 | Published

I built a multi-issuer JWT validation service from scratch in Go. Not because I needed to, production libraries exist for this. Because I wanted to understand what Spring Security was actually doing under the hood, and Go forced me to find out.

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Modeling a Speculative Asteroid Value Target with Public Data

March 29, 2026 | Published

I used public asteroid data, some hand-built assumptions, and a small ML pipeline to model a speculative value target, and in the process realized I wanted a much deeper understanding of the science underneath it.

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Learning Orbital Mechanics by Building a Simple Python Simulator

March 29, 2026 | Draft

I wanted to understand how orbits actually work, so I started building a small 2D gravity simulator in Python.

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