Oy, Today I’m not feeling the best. Between that and the desire to be more concise, I will keep today on the shorter side. For today’s post, I’m going to try an idea I had at the beginning: prepping for another post. After my discussions last week on privacy, I noticed that one tangible example is the need to privately get an abortion. While that’s always been information that you’d want to respect people’s privacy about, Roe v Wade was just overturned. Hence, the ability to legally get an ab...

Oy, Today I’m not feeling the best. Between that and the desire to be more concise, I will keep today on the shorter side. For today’s post, I’m going to try an idea I had at the beginning: prepping for another post. After my discussions last week on privacy, I noticed that one tangible example is the need to privately get an abortion. While that’s always been information that you’d want to respect people’s privacy about, Roe v Wade was just overturned. Hence, the ability to legally get an ab...

Howdy, Today marks 1 week of doing this! Let’s go! I wanted to spend today reflecting. A little on what worked and didn’t work and most on observations.It takes longer than I thinkMany of the posts I put out started as trying to be a tell-all on a topic and ended up focusing on a single part of that topic (e.g., Metaphors turning into a piece of why you should care about privacy). This isn’t necessarily bad or good. It tells me that for these topics, there is a lot I can go into (which, for p...

Howdy, Today marks 1 week of doing this! Let’s go! I wanted to spend today reflecting. A little on what worked and didn’t work and most on observations.It takes longer than I thinkMany of the posts I put out started as trying to be a tell-all on a topic and ended up focusing on a single part of that topic (e.g., Metaphors turning into a piece of why you should care about privacy). This isn’t necessarily bad or good. It tells me that for these topics, there is a lot I can go into (which, for p...

Hola, I want to follow up on the ‘why you should care about privacy’ discussion from the metaphors post. I mainly wrote about why it’s creepy to not have privacy and the sense of harm that can come from lack of privacy. Today, I want to dive deeper into what that harm actually is. The danger from lack of privacy often feels more ominous than tangible. I get a bad feeling in my stomach when a private company owns my DNA sequence, or the government knows my location 24/7. However, defining EXAC...

Hola, I want to follow up on the ‘why you should care about privacy’ discussion from the metaphors post. I mainly wrote about why it’s creepy to not have privacy and the sense of harm that can come from lack of privacy. Today, I want to dive deeper into what that harm actually is. The danger from lack of privacy often feels more ominous than tangible. I get a bad feeling in my stomach when a private company owns my DNA sequence, or the government knows my location 24/7. However, defining EXAC...

Hello Internet, Today I am issuing a challenge to myself. I will spend an hour a day writing and publishing something new. It can be on anything I want. It can be about anything I want. But I have to post something. The rule is simple: publish something new every day. My goal is to improve at writing and explaining concepts I am interested in.Questions That I want to AddressDoes it have to be for an hour? No. If I’m feeling myself, I can put more time in. If I feel like a potato, I can crank ...

Hello Internet, Today I am issuing a challenge to myself. I will spend an hour a day writing and publishing something new. It can be on anything I want. It can be about anything I want. But I have to post something. The rule is simple: publish something new every day. My goal is to improve at writing and explaining concepts I am interested in.Questions That I want to AddressDoes it have to be for an hour? No. If I’m feeling myself, I can put more time in. If I feel like a potato, I can crank ...

Hi, Did some reading today on the legality of abortions and how to get pills. Today will be less writing and more jotting down info for later.LegalityRip Roe v Wade. The quick summary is that it is illegal to aid someone in getting an abortion in states where abortion is illegal (i.e., it’s illegal to help someone find resources or terminate the pregnancy in Texas). These laws do not allow pregnant people to be prosecuted, only the people who aid them (however, there have been ~60 cases in th...

Hi, Did some reading today on the legality of abortions and how to get pills. Today will be less writing and more jotting down info for later.LegalityRip Roe v Wade. The quick summary is that it is illegal to aid someone in getting an abortion in states where abortion is illegal (i.e., it’s illegal to help someone find resources or terminate the pregnancy in Texas). These laws do not allow pregnant people to be prosecuted, only the people who aid them (however, there have been ~60 cases in th...

Helllo, Today I’m going to talk about hash functions. What they are, how they work, and why they are incredibly cool. Quick note: my goal for today is to explain this concisely. As mentioned in the reflection, I tend to underestimate what I need to add. Today, I will try and over-estimate.WhatHash functions turn data into a random number. Hash(1234) = random number. Hash(“why hello there“ = different random number. Hash(The Entire Bee Movie) = another different random number. How the random n...

Helllo, Today I’m going to talk about hash functions. What they are, how they work, and why they are incredibly cool. Quick note: my goal for today is to explain this concisely. As mentioned in the reflection, I tend to underestimate what I need to add. Today, I will try and over-estimate.WhatHash functions turn data into a random number. Hash(1234) = random number. Hash(“why hello there“ = different random number. Hash(The Entire Bee Movie) = another different random number. How the random n...

Welcome to day 1, I’m not sure what I should be writing about today. Ideally, I’d take the time to research something I find interesting and write about what I learned. Now I realize that the 1 hour doesn’t give me much time to do that. The 1 hour is still DANK; I would be procrastinating doing something if I didn’t set a goal and didn’t make it small. If I made the goal to publish information on something I find interesting and want to explain, like Differential Privacy, I would have pushed ...

Welcome to day 1, I’m not sure what I should be writing about today. Ideally, I’d take the time to research something I find interesting and write about what I learned. Now I realize that the 1 hour doesn’t give me much time to do that. The 1 hour is still DANK; I would be procrastinating doing something if I didn’t set a goal and didn’t make it small. If I made the goal to publish information on something I find interesting and want to explain, like Differential Privacy, I would have pushed ...

It’s Friday night. A little inebriated. Just watched Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch. Really enjoyed it! Sooo tonight let’s talk about it. What did I think about it? I enjoy thinking about stories and film analysis. It would be fun to have some exploration as an enjoyer and critic. I feel like I’m rambling. Definitely a a bit of a tangent but not in a bad way. My gut says good ideas but needs refinement. I can’t help but think of Zeffirelli needing editing from Lucinda Krementz. Need doesn...

It’s Friday night. A little inebriated. Just watched Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch. Really enjoyed it! Sooo tonight let’s talk about it. What did I think about it? I enjoy thinking about stories and film analysis. It would be fun to have some exploration as an enjoyer and critic. I feel like I’m rambling. Definitely a a bit of a tangent but not in a bad way. My gut says good ideas but needs refinement. I can’t help but think of Zeffirelli needing editing from Lucinda Krementz. Need doesn...

It’s day 2 y’all, Given that part of the reason I started this is to practice explaining technical concepts, I thought, let’s do something like that today. Now it needs to be something I already understand pretty well. Cryptographic key management is on the mind, so Imma do a post on cryptographic keys: what they are, how they work, and why they are pretty neat.Quick Notes on Security & PrivacyAfter writing this, I realized I should probably define security and privacy because they are at the...

It’s day 2 y’all, Given that part of the reason I started this is to practice explaining technical concepts, I thought, let’s do something like that today. Now it needs to be something I already understand pretty well. Cryptographic key management is on the mind, so Imma do a post on cryptographic keys: what they are, how they work, and why they are pretty neat.Quick Notes on Security & PrivacyAfter writing this, I realized I should probably define security and privacy because they are at the...

Hello There, Yesterday I noticed I spent a bunch of time defining security and privacy. Not only was it fun, but also it got me thinking. Those are some basic concepts I need to practice explaining at a really high level. So let’s spend today thinking of ways to describe them. I find metaphors really help contextualize complicated topics. For today I want to try thinking of different metaphors I could use to explain security and privacy.Small GoalsBefore I start writing thoughts down, I want ...

Hello There, Yesterday I noticed I spent a bunch of time defining security and privacy. Not only was it fun, but also it got me thinking. Those are some basic concepts I need to practice explaining at a really high level. So let’s spend today thinking of ways to describe them. I find metaphors really help contextualize complicated topics. For today I want to try thinking of different metaphors I could use to explain security and privacy.Small GoalsBefore I start writing thoughts down, I want ...