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Finding German Names in Legal Text: Why Capitalization Fails You
German capitalizes every noun, which quietly destroys the easiest signal for detecting names. How custom recognizers, an eval harness with hard CI gates, and treating a score scale as a contract got German person recall from 0.86 to 1.0.
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Finding a Niche for a Privacy Tool: From Zero-Knowledge Notes to Law Firms
A side project that started as an encrypted knowledge base and ended as a pseudonymization gateway for small law firms. The dead ends, the one contradiction that killed the first idea, and why honest wording beat a bolder claim.
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Building This Blog: Astro 7, Two Languages, and an AI Pair Programmer
How this site came together in one weekend: a phased plan, pure-function domain logic, a bilingual setup without an i18n framework, and the things that actually went wrong.