Josh Brody

Nobody knocked My history of cybercrime is typical: the usual shithead tour of carding, account takeover, game cheats, denial of service.

Reflections on Presenting at InterCOP hosted by INTERPOL In July 2026 I presented at the 7th International Cyber Offender Prevention conference: InterCOP, hosted by INTERPOL in Lyon, France.

Leeds/Maxwell: Clustering DNA Matches When the Tree Is Lying The Leeds Method has one quiet assumption baked into it: your grandparents were never fertile, hot, and sexually irresponsible.

Robert Sapolsky’s Determined changed how I think about human behavior.

What Passphrase Are You?

The moat was never the code I ran an unauthorized sports streaming service from 2016 to 2021.

so you got tired of alerts that your queries were timing out. that’s bad because alerts are good even though nobody likes the alerts. my mom didn’t like acknowledging she might have cancer either so she just ignored the headaches and vertigo and balance i…

We made this hard The job hasn’t changed in thirty years.

A single idle-in-transaction connection can starve every table in your database.

I have a few open-source libraries that you could call popular.

I’m building an ETL system that imports billions of person records from data vendors.

I got out of prison and couldn’t log into my GitHub.

I built a WASM-compatible Rails playground that runs entirely in your browser.

Hi, I’m Josh.

I get this a lot.

Here’s something I’ve been putting off writing: I spent eighteen months in federal prison.

SEALED Case No. 22-cr-00350 (S.D.N.Y.) 451 Unavailable For Legal Reasons The content you are attempting to access has been restricted due to a legal demand.

Configuration is often the first thing users interact with in your gem.

Here’s the thing about API endpoints: you end up writing the same boilerplate over and over.

Here’s the thing about admin panels: nobody wants to build them, nobody wants to maintain them, and the people who need them most are the ones with the least power to demand them.

A few years ago I inherited a codebase where the users table had no unique constraint on email.