Connor Faulkner

blog

Notes on code, physics, and security.

Short-form write-ups, debugging stories, and technical observations from ongoing research and side projects.

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7

Published blog entries.

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24

Distinct tags across all posts.

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Agentic Coding Boilerplate CUDA Case Study Claude DNS Django GDPR Machine Learning Meta Performance Physics Projects Research Rust SaaS Security Sports Startup Threat Intelligence Tools Trading Visualization wgpu

30 July 2026

Four Months Later: What Survived

A follow-up to the March snapshot. Since then: a planning-data SaaS grew up and survived its first real data bug, four months of dry-run evidence killed most of a trading system, the physics-LLM program wrapped, and this site learned to rebuild itself.

Projects Trading Machine Learning Physics SaaS Django
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29 March 2026

Building cviz: A Spatial Map of Your Codebase

I built a native Rust tool that turns git repositories into interactive 2.5D spatial maps — and hooks into Claude Code to light up files in real time as the agent navigates.

Rust Visualization Agentic Coding wgpu Tools
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29 March 2026

What I've Been Building

A snapshot of what's been occupying the late nights — physics simulations, LLM compression, telescope anomaly detection, a codebase visualizer, a crypto trading system, and a GPS football tracker.

Projects Research Physics Machine Learning Startup Rust Trading Sports
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26 March 2026

Building DjangoShip with Claude

I extracted the reusable parts of a Django job board into a SaaS boilerplate for European developers. Here's what that process actually looked like.

Django SaaS GDPR Claude Boilerplate
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9 March 2026

Building ising-rs: From Python Script to GPU-Accelerated Research Platform

The journey from a college Python script to a publication-grade Monte Carlo engine achieving 0.01% accuracy on the 3D critical temperature.

Rust CUDA Physics Performance Case Study
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9 March 2026

DNS Threat Intelligence: Detecting DGA Families in the Wild

Technical notes on detecting domain generation algorithms through DNS traffic analysis — expanding on published research at Akamai.

Security DNS Threat Intelligence Machine Learning
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9 March 2026

Hello World

First post — what this blog is for and what to expect.

Meta
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