Writeups
These document things I’ve worked on - the problems I encountered, the solutions I built, and what I learned along the way. Some are project retrospectives, some are technical deep-dives into specific challenges, and some are just me working through a problem in excruciating detail because I can’t let it go. If you want to see how I actually approach problems - the dead ends, the pivots, the math - it’s here. Less “here’s what you should think” and more “here’s what I did.”
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Rui: The Ongoing Battle Against Scam Campaigns on Discord
How a personal health tracking bot became a scam detection system — and the architectural journey from simple hash matching to a distributed, similarity-aware pipeline protecting Discord servers.
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Hardware Ethernet Filter (USU ECE 3710)
Archived documentation of a hardware Ethernet filter project from USU ECE 3710, preserving design details, implementation, and original project materials.
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How I Built a Blog That Versions My Thinking
How and why I built custom infrastructure for transparent revision - from version-controlled deployments to GitHub integration
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How I Proved I was Unlucky using Cuda and Verified it with Math
A deep-dive analysis into the probabilities of Risk using CUDA and Math to validate the improbability a humorously outrageous game.