A public record of
questionable decisions.
Independent research. Inadequate supervision.
Public record / Est. 2025Software, satire, and other things that got out of hand.
Someone gave me a computer. This keeps happening.
One missed school pickup. One live wedding anniversary. The household is strengthening the safeguards around an increasingly difficult-to-steer husband.
Read the full disclosure# A DynamoDB point read, via DNS: $ dig +short alice.db.internal TXT "{\"pk\":\"alice\",\"paid\":false}" # That was a GetItem.Also actual software. Regrettably.
An authoritative DNS server backed by DynamoDB. AWS Labs put a DynamoDB API in front of other databases; this does the opposite. Your query language is now dig.
Satire / Consumer hardware
A rat trap that performs a victory aria. Backed by Y Exterminator. There is no mute button.
# Inside your mounted hosted zone: $ echo 192.0.2.53 | sudo tee @/A 192.0.2.53 # That was a DNS deployment.Actual software. Somehow.
Colin Percival mounted DNS over NFS. I tested it, broke it a little, and wrote the marketing site it deserves.
I forgot to pick up my kids, so I wrote the incident report like a frontier AI lab. The ice cream did not score.
RICO-as-a-Service. Fake employment verification for jobs you never had. A startup parody with an alarming business model.
Menu-bar CI monitoring for macOS. Actually useful. Includes unsolicited platypus.
The Billie Autoresponder. A platypus-themed manifesto delivered directly to people who email me.
An LLM trained on the reply guys. Unwavering confidence. Unsolicited regional opinions.
Payments infrastructure for people who cannot be reasoned with. Not taking customers. Or payments.
Five glorious days. One EC2 instance. A short, irresponsible life. Decommissioned December 2025.