Capitol Hill Coffee Guide
A hand-curated guide to independent coffee shops: filterable browsing, a map, detail pages, a visit “passport” and taste-based …
View Project →braxt0n
bleeding-edge tech, security,
and esoterica
I build things, break things, and write about the process. Engineer by trade, cinephile by passion, eternally curious about the esoteric. This is where I document technical projects, share research, and occasionally rant about Tarkovsky films.
Featured Projects
Seattle Events Collector
A pipeline that pulls events from 50+ Seattle venues, ticketing APIs and calendar feeds, merges the duplicates, and serves one digest as a web UI, RSS …
View Project →Rewards Account Change Watcher
A headless watcher that monitors a loyalty-program account, detects any change to its activity history (including edits and deletions of old rows), …
View Project →Recent Articles
A Coffee Guide in 48 Hours (With Tests, Because I Can't Help It)
Written up in October 2026. Dates are when I actually built it. Two days, one weekend project, and a personal rule that it still had to be done …
Read more →My Airline Points Kept Changing, So I Built a Watcher
Written up in October 2026. Dates are when I actually built it. Airline rewards activity isn’t a log, it’s a table that quietly edits …
Read more →I Found an Open Admin Endpoint in My Own Code
Written up in October 2026. Dates are when I actually built it. Reviewing your own code like you’re attacking it is humbling. I did that to my …
Read more →50+ Event Sources, One Digest, and a 226s to 44s Speedup
Written up in October 2026. Dates are when I actually built it. Finding out what’s happening in Seattle means checking about fifty websites. I …
Read more →How Do You Know a Shopping Bonus Is Actually Good?
Written up in October 2026. Dates are when I actually built it. Airline shopping portals love to scream “5X POINTS!!!” at you. Is that a …
Read more →The Modern Hacker's Manifesto
A declaration of principles for the 21st century hacker - builder, breaker, and defender of digital freedom. Preamble We are the architects of …
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