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Ollie

Cultivating a small patch of internet. Solutions architect, gamer, tinkerer. Probably overthinking something right now.

5 posts

security

Atomic Arch or Atomic OUCH?!

1,500+ AUR packages got hijacked to ship a credential stealer with an eBPF rootkit. What a shit Friday. I hope you enjoyed my title wordplay, you devious devil.

Dear MAP Team: I Think You've Got The Wrong Number

So this morning Shell emailed me their homework. The full version is funnier and also slightly more terrifying.

Stripping YouTube down to text: a tour of Transcriptor

A small local-first pipeline that takes a YouTube URL and gives back a transcript file. Why I built it, the Windows-specific landmines I tap-danced across to get it working, and the hacks that exist because Windows is shit.

star-citizen

What I've been quietly building: a tour of SC-Datamining

A tour of the Python toolkit I've been quietly maintaining for the last few months: what it does, who it's actually for, why I had to rebuild the unpacking layer when CIG shipped DataCore V6, and the long list of things I still want to add.

Hello.

Personal site is up. Nothing else is here yet, deliberately. A properly written first post lands soon. If you'd like to know when, the RSS feed at /rss/