Bran (Brandon) Myers
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Writing

Thinking out loud

Cryptography · Essay
Why I Built Invisible Encryption
Conventional encryption marks itself. It announces its own existence. I wanted to build something that didn't.
SEO · Infrastructure
Subdomain Theory and Why Everyone Gets i18n Wrong
The standard approach to international SEO is subfolders. The correct approach is subdomains. Here's why, and what 45,000 pages taught me.
Infrastructure
The Night I Replaced a Vendor Database with a Signed Chain
Atlas was being terminated. We ended with a self-hosted, Ed25519-signed, tamper-evident chain replicated across five nodes. In one session.
Security Research
How I Zero-Dayed Chrome and What It Taught Me About Power
CVSS 9.6 Critical. 100+ vendors. Google WontFix. What finding a hole in the world's most popular browser taught me about institutions.
Cryptography
The Day AES Called Back
I sent a cold email to the co-creator of AES. He replied. He validated the architecture. That changed everything.
Architecture · Personal
On Building Systems That Hold Up When Reality Gets Messy
Not "I built something they cannot break." But "I built something that still holds up when reality gets messy." That is the level that actually wins.
Infrastructure · Personal
I Deleted Three Million Records and Slept Better
Replaced vendor-dependent database operations with embedded encrypted DuckDB. Zero latency. Zero cost. PII never leaves the rack.
Personal
On Building Through Pain
Projects froze for years. A marriage ended. Access to my daughters became conditional. A visa stripped away. And then I built harder and faster than I ever had before.