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

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* 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. ...

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. ...