03 FIELD NOTES · ARCHIVE

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Long-form on security, endurance, and the engineering decisions behind both. Hover for context, click to read. Filter by track if you want one over the other.

FIELD · 2026 · 05 · 5 min

The trade

He's crewing me at Kraichgau. I'm crewing him at Greenloop. One week between — a fair exchange between two people on parallel arcs. Notes before the start line.

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NOTE · 2026 · 04 · 6 min

Ausbildung first

Why I did the German vocational route before going to university — and why I'm starting the university part now anyway. Practice first, theory second.

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SECURITY · 2026 · 04 · 8 min

Six lessons from AEGIS

What a year of building a deterministic security evaluation harness for tool-using AI agents actually taught me — about decisions, scope, and the discipline of staying boring.

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SECURITY · 2026 · 04 · 7 min

Public, by accident

What strangers can pull from your social media. The gap between sharing one thing and revealing another — and what to actually do about it.

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SECURITY · 2026 · 04 · 5 min

Why I didn't use Notion

What you give up when you let a hosted platform ship your portfolio for you. The case for owning the build, and the case for not.

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FIELD · 2026 · 04 · 5 min

Eighty-seven points

From 1670 to 1757. DJK Seifriedsberg's third Landesliga season — and the first one we finished mid-table. Notes on a year of giving up trying to be unorthodox.

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NOTE · 2026 · 03 · 4 min

Two weeks in Shenzhen

An exchange program through Berufsschule 1 Kempten and Shenzhen University of Information Technology. The drone license was the least interesting thing I brought home.

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