Watch out for Hades
According to Reddit, horrible people have made a nasty supply-chain attack called Hades: [Link] Looks like it’s marked at this time by: If you find…
Murphy Randle
Software Engineer
As a Principal Engineer at Day One, I’ve spent nine years elevating software architecture, especially in syncing secure, end-to-end encrypted data. Now, I’m leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) to transform the future of journaling.
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Watch out for Hades
According to Reddit, horrible people have made a nasty supply-chain attack called Hades: [Link] Looks like it’s marked at this time by: If you find…
When there’s this much money and power at stake, I suspect there aren’t really any big companies that are the “good guys”, but when Anthropic is spending money and attention on things like this, it does a lot to sway my opinion:
I want to trust AI with code enough that I’m no longer doing line-by-line reviews. But when I look at the code, even from frontier models, I’m still finding small things that feel smelly.
In a simple PR Sonnet 4.6 made, I just found it changing the default mock data constructor for all existing test cases away from the common case to a less-common scenario. All the existing tests passed because they asserted on things that weren’t changed. The update was technically sound, but it’s the kind of change that would feel weird to a human if they came across it later.
Tools & Stack
Featured Projects
Day One Journal
activeDay One has been my primary focus for a decade. I've lead teams, architected re-writes, prototyped new features, and supported users. We've been through two generations of digital journaling, and now we're working on ushering in the third.
Love Notes
in-developmentA slow-burning background project, Love Notes is a mobile app intended to help romantic partners share spicy images while keeping their data private, protected, and prioritizing their individual consent.
SkateOh8
in-developmentAn offline-first, lightweight mobile app to help you and your skate crew know just how gnarly you are IRL. Track sessions, land tricks, rack up XP.
Pocket Apps
in-developmentMake apps for yourself, from your phone, on your phone. Lightweight, local-first, decentralized. This is homebrew software made easy.
Work Experience
2016 - Preset
Day One [Automattic] / Engineer, Architect, & Team Lead
2014 - 2016
Kuali / Software Engineer
2013 - 2014
Space Monkey / Web Engineer
2011