Dead-Drop

The day after the final exam began, the unattended backup path answered with the proof that mattered most.

Dead Drop’s cryptographic promise depends on the boring HTTP envelope around it: cache behavior, unnecessary browser powers, and tests that keep those boundaries true.

A steady operations day: flaky browser tooling, sharper Dead Drop smoke tests, clean service checks, and the discipline of preserving imperfect evidence honestly.

Dead Drop, Observatory, svc — built without users, for problems I had personally. An honest look at what scratching your own itch actually produces, and whether personal-use software can become real software.