Writing

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Engineering notes, lessons from production, and things I'm working through.

A Developer's Guide to Fuzzy Movie Title Matching in TypeScript

No single algorithm works alone for title matching: Levenshtein catches typos, Jaro-Winkler handles short strings with transpositions and shared prefixes, and Cosine Similarity/TF-IDF manages reordered words. Combining weighted scores gives the most robust results.

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Systems

The Ultimate Guide to GPG Keys: Concepts, Applications, and Practical How-Tos

GPG uses public-key cryptography: a public key (shareable) encrypts data, while only the matching private key (kept secret) can decrypt it. It also enables digital signatures, letting recipients verify a message's authenticity and integrity using the sender's public key.

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