What I’m doing right now
What is this?
Here I keep an up-to-date list of the things I'm focusing on and what I'm doing. Think of it as a more relevant and interesting "About" page. Inspired by nownownow.com.
Last updated 1 week, 5 days ago from my apartment in Cape Town
I just arrived back in Cape Town after a lovely weekend away in George for a good friend's wedding. Summer is here and the city is bustling with Germans escaping their winter for a few months. It's beautiful, the jacaranda trees are in bloom, painting the ground purple. Local elections and my bestie's birthday are on Wednesday, the latter of which I'm looking forward to.
All fancied up for the wedding
Defending Bear
Autonomous agents are becoming a problem on the internet, and my job is now combatting them at scale (blocked 3.5m malicious web requests in the past 24 hours). This is a combination of vulnerability scanning, data scraping, and bots trying to slopify the platform. It is unfortunate that the internet has become so hostile, but I'm prepared to engage in this arms race until the bitter end.
The Bear Manifesto outlines my philosophy and plans for the platform.
Other
I'm currently reading Everyone in my family has killed someone by Benjamin Stevenson.