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  • Mobi NFC Tags: Hooking into the Vancouver Bikeshare API

    April 06, 2026

    Vancouver's bikeshare system Mobi is my go-to way for getting around the city in the summer -- pick up a bike, ride to wherever, drop it off. Ride it back later, or don't, it's not your bike so you…

  • User ID Watermarking: Using Steganography to Identify Asset Leaks

    April 04, 2026

    The issue: we want to provide a set of assets to our users, but we don't want them to upload the assets online and share them with the world at large. If we give the users full access to the assets on…

  • RAG on the Cheap: Building an LLM-based Support Ticket Pipeline on Existing AWS Infrastructure

    March 23, 2026

    Background Like in most organizations, our support staff spends a lot of time answering the same questions for different users, especially at the start of a quarter. To ease some of the burden on our…