Co-Primes & RSA: Building Unbreakable Rhythms in Code

How co-primes and Euler’s φ create the rhythmic foundations of secure RSA encryption.

Sales Lessons from HTTP Status Codes

200 OK: Life in Status Codes

In many ways, I’ve always seen life through the lens of software. It’s fascinating how the principles of something like HTTP protocols can mirror our day-to-day interactions. For example, when I’m in a conversation, I often find myself thinking in terms of status codes. A smooth, easy chat where everything clicks feels like a “200 OK.” On the other hand, those moments when someone asks me something completely out of the blue and I draw a blank? That’s a classic “404 Not Found” moment.

The Gap Between Us: A Reflection on Inheritance, Identity, and Imperfect Design

The Gap Between Us

• — A Reflection on Inheritance, Identity, and Imperfect Design*

When I look at a child born with a noticeable gap between their front teeth—a diastema—I don’t just see a dental anomaly. I see a living example of how nature mixes and matches the building blocks of two people, sometimes with beautiful imperfection.

This child might have inherited a wide jaw from one parent and small teeth from the other. Neither parent may have had the gap themselves, but in the hands of genetics, the combination paints a new picture. That’s one of the first lessons we learn from cases like these: traits don’t blend like paint—they combine like puzzle pieces, often in ways we can’t predict.

🌌 Reflection inspired by the asymptote 🌌

A fool is wiser than the wisest man without a goal.
For all he does in this fabric of reality is sit still, doing nothing,
as infinity quietly passes him by.

Like the curve of (y = 1/x), he draws closer and closer to the edge of meaning,
approaching purpose but never touching it.
He exists,
he moves,
he breathes,
but he never arrives.

A life without direction becomes an endless loop of motion
that never materializes into something tangible.
It’s not that the journey is worthless —
there’s value in the mere act of being,
of nearing,
of almost.
But without a goal,
without that crossing point,
even the wisest mind risks fading into a mathematical ghost,
forever tracing a line it can never touch.