CHAINCODER

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hacker, reverse engineer, smallweb blogger, and future cyborg. lover of DIY ethos.
Fine-Tuning on My Own Commit History: The Model Now Writes Bugs in My Style

Because when you fine-tune on your own history, you are not training a model to be better than you.

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How I Turned 4,200 Obsidian Notes Into a Chatbot That Runs on My Laptop

What I needed wasn’t better organization. I had already tried that. What I needed was a way to ask questions the way I actually think, not the way I named files.

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I Shouldn’t Be Sharing This Part 2: 37 Google Dork Patterns That Still Surface Exposed AWS Keys in 2026

This is where most people misunderstand exposure. They imagine breaches as events. Explosions. Headlines. In reality, it is persistence. Old artifacts that never got cleaned up. Strings of credenti…

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Building a $40 Stingray Detector That Fits in an Altoids Tin

You don’t see IMSI catchers. You don’t hear them. They sit between your phone and the network like a polite lie, impersonating a tower just well enough that your device shrugs and connects anyway. …

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This Is What a Personal Surveillance System Actually Looks Like

You stop thinking of it as surveillance. It becomes “the system.” Just part of how things run.

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What Actually Happens When You Leave an ESP32 Running 24/7

Heap fragmentation is the quiet one. It doesn’t crash immediately. It just reshapes what’s available. Allocations that worked on day one start failing in strange ways. Not clean failures either. Pa…

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Automation Feels Different When It Touches Reality

Automation in the abstract feels clean. A script executes, a rule triggers, a process completes. It’s precise, predictable, and measurable. In practice, it bumps into the messy, analog world: netwo…

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new post on chaincoder, talking some more about maximizing one's output/coherence with the right tools- today, that tool is #obsidian - a classic for a reason. #blog #programming #systemsthinking #productivity #optimization #workflow

https://cha1nc0der.wordpress.com/2026/03/22/how-i-use-obsidian-to-capture-distill-and-weaponize-ideas/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

How I Use Obsidian to Capture, Distill, and Weaponize Ideas

Ideas rarely stand alone. They’re fragments of larger structures. When you link a note to two or three others, something starts to form. Not a hierarchy. More like pressure building in certain area…

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OSINT Isn’t About Skill Anymore. It’s About Systems

There’s a moment, if you spend enough time in this space, where your attention changes. You stop looking at individual data points as things to extract. You start seeing them as inputs to a larger …

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From Raw Data to Actionable Intelligence Without Leaving My System

The room is quiet except for a fan that shouldn’t be that loud. Not the kind of noise you notice at first. It creeps in. A low mechanical breath that suggests something is working harder than it sh…

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