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Priveil: pseudonymisation for Australian financial data

Introducing Priveil — a pragmatic tool for detecting and replacing PII in financial text. Not anonymisation. Not a silver bullet. But better than nothing.

Hacking Gandalf: lessons from an LLM prompt-injection game

Working through Lakera's Gandalf challenge level by level, and what each broken defence teaches you about how LLM guardrails actually fail.

Monstermash gets an MCP server

Monstermash now ships an MCP server so you can encrypt and decrypt data without ever leaving your AI chat.

Designing the Room

The environment you design for your team is not the backdrop to your leadership. It is a large part of the leadership itself.

Why Estimates Always Lie — And What to Do About It

A look at why software estimation is so reliably broken, and a tool I built to make it a little more honest

Mapping Fire: Five Decades of Bushfires in NSW

An interactive dashboard exploring patterns in NSW's fire history since 1970