The Four Checks Most MCP Servers Skip
August 20, 2026 | Published
Only 8.5% of open-source MCP servers use OAuth at all. This is what the spec actually asks for, implemented in Go on top of a JWT library I'd written the month before.
Read PostNotes on backend architecture, identity, and cloud engineering.
August 20, 2026 | Published
Only 8.5% of open-source MCP servers use OAuth at all. This is what the spec actually asks for, implemented in Go on top of a JWT library I'd written the month before.
Read PostJuly 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.
Read PostApril 15, 2026 | Draft
I wanted to understand how orbits actually work, so I started building a small 2D gravity simulator in Python.
Read PostMarch 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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