I have wanted to start writing more regularly for a while, which is another way of saying that I have thought about starting a blog for a while and then mostly avoided doing it. So this is me lowering the barrier: a small corner of the internet for research notes, race reports, training thoughts, and assorted things I want to remember before I overthink them.
My work is mostly about empirical security and privacy measurement. Recently, that has meant studying commercial browser fingerprinting, canvas fingerprinting, and modern Web tracking in practice: what systems actually collect, how they behave when deployed on real sites, and how that differs from the cleaner version of the problem that exists in papers, docs, and diagrams.
I also race bikes, which means a nontrivial amount of my life is spent thinking about training, recovery, equipment choices, race tactics, snacks, and whether a questionable decision was actually character-building. I do not expect every researcher who lands here to care about bike racing, and I do not expect every cyclist to want a post about browser APIs. That split is part of the point.
What will go here?
Probably a mix of things: explainers on Web privacy and fingerprinting, notes from measurement projects, race reports, training reflections, half-formed observations, and the occasional post that does not fit neatly into either research or cycling. Some posts will be technical. Some will not be. I will try to label them clearly so people can stay in their lane, wander into the other one, or ignore the whole thing entirely.
I am also treating this as an excuse to practice writing in a lower-stakes format. Academic writing is useful, but it can make every sentence feel like it needs to justify its existence. Race reports have the opposite problem: somehow there is always too much to say about one corner, one attack, one snack, or one bad decision. A blog feels like a useful middle ground.
Why now?
Because I keep finding myself with notes that are too informal for a paper, too long for a social post, and too interesting to leave in a private document forever. Also because I like reading other people’s process notes — how they approached a project, what confused them, what they tried first, what failed, and what they would do differently next time.
So: hello, world. This is a place for writing things down, ideally before they become too polished to be useful.
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