Occasional writing about invisible Unicode, text steganography, and the tools that claim to find AI writing.
· 4 minute read
A popup that needs no permissions at all, a right-click item that spends one tab of access, and clean-as-you-paste on the sites you choose. Plus the three things it cannot do, said out loud.
· 4 minute read
One keystroke cleans the selection in place, clean-as-you-copy does it before you paste, and the weekly free cleans are counted on your own Mac. Signed, notarised, and it sends two things ever.
· 6 minute read
A confidence figure of 85%, a repeating pattern of "1, 1", and a paragraph verdict that is the same sentence every time, all read from the shipped bundle, plus what a spacing statistic could actually support.
· 5 minute read
Four commands that share their switches with this website, a gate that holds a whole tree to a bar in CI, and a skill and an MCP server so an agent runs it unasked. Nothing here calls home.
· 5 minute read
A profile of counts rather than a copy of your sentences, a fact check that marks every number and link kept or missing, and a local model that keeps the whole of it on your Mac.
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