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I'm a software engineer. I build, research and write about technology, artificial intelligence, and the open web. I also mentor startups and teach AI engineering.

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Passkey Security CTF Challenge for TISC

TISC Challenge Creator Award

Back in June 2025, I submitted a security Capture-The-Flag (CTF) challenge for the annual The InfoSecurity Challenge (TISC) 2025, organized by Centre for Strategic Infocomm Technologies (CSIT), an agency in the Ministry of Defense of Singapore, and it revolves around Passkey.

I was lucky to have my challenge selected for TISC. TISC 2025 consists of 12 CTF challenges. My Passkey CTF challenge is 1 of the 3 community challenges that were accepted — with the remaining either developed internally by CSIT or developed/commissioned by CSIT-related entities. This nets me a cool $1000! :)

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DEF CON 33

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OpenAI Codex

Guest Lecture at NUS Business School: The Open Web

Fun project 16 years ago

A series of rabbit holes

The Roadmap Pitfall: Companies Should Not Sell Tomorrow's Features Today

Introducing Tixie

Digg is coming back

Hidden messages from OpenAI GPT 4.5 announcement

Claude Code is impressive

Thoughts on Perplexity Deep Research, after 24 hours of heavy use

OpenAI on Open AI Strategy

Switching cost for AI models is $0

Self-publishing

It is 2025, build like it's 2005!

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