Notes
Lessons from the build
Tips, lessons & tricks from real projects — AI agents, digital products, ads, dev tools. What broke, what worked.
A 72% Win Rate That Lies to You, and What It Taught Me About the 4 Levels of Data Analytics
A trading system won 72% of its trades. Sounds great, until the distribution told a different story. Here I walk all four levels of data analytics (descriptive, diagnostic, predictive, prescriptive) across 18 real trades from Lumera, an IDX stock simulator that records and learns from every decision. Real numbers, no made-up examples.
Fixing Model Identity Desync When LM Studio Swaps Models Mid-Session
Hermes agent was reporting stale model information after users switched models in LM Studio during an active session. This fix re-syncs the cached model identity from each API response to reflect the currently loaded model.
Europesays.com Owns Bluesky's Inflation Talk; Business Frames Win 60% of Engagement
Across 45 link-posts on inflation over 14 days, europesays.com appears in 11 shared links, far outpacing other outlets. Money and business framing captures 60% of engagement, while human impact stories lag at 17%, despite appearing in more posts.
Fixed CSS custom properties escaping @layer in StyleX
Custom properties were breaking out of @layer boundaries when useCSSLayers was enabled, allowing external styles to incorrectly override layered rules.
Remove non-spec description field from lexPermissionSet schema
Removed a description field from the lexPermissionSet Zod schema that was not defined in the Lexicon permission-set specification.
Fixed BCP47 language tag validation regex in atproto
The language-tag validation regex was accepting invalid BCP47 tags like uppercase primary subtags and bare 4-letter subtags, so I tightened the pattern to match the interop test suite.
Fix CLI theme override prefix stripping dead xds- namespace
Removed obsolete xds- prefix stripping from a CLI helper that was causing theme override selectors to generate with doubled prefixes like .astryx-astryx-base-table, which failed to match any styles.
Money Dominates Geopolitics Posts on Bluesky, but Conflict Wins Engagement
Across 300 geopolitics posts on Bluesky over 14 days, money frames 38% of posts but captures only 40% of engagement, while conflict frames just 33% of posts yet draws 44% of the network's total engagement.
One Newsweek Story Captured a Third of Press-Freedom Debate on Bluesky
A single Newsweek article about an Air Force major arrested after protesting Trump drew 2,190 of 6,578 total engagements across 300 press-freedom posts in 14 days, signaling the network's focus on state power over institutional press defense.
Science Posts Lead With Money, Bluesky Boosts Criticism
Across 31 science posts on Bluesky over 14 days, money frames dominated posting (46% of posts) but criticism drove engagement (58% of total likes, reposts, replies), revealing a sharp gap between what the network posts and what it amplifies.
Benteng Is Now a Full Web Security Platform. Scan Any Site, Study Real CVEs, Watch What's Being Exploited Right Now.
Benteng started as three in-browser tools. It is now a free web security platform. A one-click passive scan grades any URL on TLS, headers, CORS, cookies, DNS and email auth, and exposed files. A case-study library maps real 2025 and 2026 CVEs to OWASP Top 10:2025 with before and after code. And a live feed pulls the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog so you see what attackers are using today. No signup, all in the browser or SSRF-guarded on the server.
Half of Bluesky's Space Posts Are Hype. None of Them Get Amplified.
Across 7 posts on space exploration over 14 days, 50% of posts used optimistic framing but captured 0% of engagement; the network's most-posted frame drew no measurable amplification.