Nic Lydon

Director of Information Security. Twenty years in tech, fifteen in security, and an enthusiastic abuser of agentic coding tools. I write about what I can't stop thinking about, with data.

Boston, MA Joined on May 1, 2026 https://niclydon.io

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Nic Lydon

May 17

I Wrote an MCP Server for My 3D Printer

#ai #mcp #productivity #programming

5 min read

Nic Lydon

May 16

Vibe Coding Is to Software Development as Desire Paths Are to City Planning

#ai #security #devops #architecture

8 min read

Gemma 4 Challenge: Write about Gemma 4 Submission

Nic Lydon

May 13

I Put Gemma 4 Behind My Homelab AI Gateway. This Is the Beginning.

#ai #gemmachallenge #gemma #opensource

8 min read

Nic Lydon

May 12

I Audited My AI Agents and Found That Most of Their Reasoning Wasn’t Observable

#ai #observability #typescript #devops

8 min read

Nic Lydon

May 10

It’s Not Just the College Kids

#ai #opensource #programming #architecture

4 min read

Nic Lydon

May 9

I Trained an LLM on 75K of My Own Messages So It Would Stop Writing Like a Chatbot

#ai #machinelearning #llm #python

8 min read

Nic Lydon

May 7

I Built a Personal Knowledge Graph. Apple Had Already Built One on My Laptop.

#apple #postgres #privacy #dataengineering

6 min read

Nic Lydon

May 6

Building a Skills Updater Pipeline for AI Platforms

#showdev #ai #automation #llm

2 min read

Nic Lydon

May 4

25 Months of Waiting, 12 Hours of Work

#ai #iot #wearables #sideprojects

7 min read

Nic Lydon

May 4

I have NFC implants in both hands. I only installed one of them myself.

#discuss #devjournal #iot #science

8 min read

Nic Lydon

May 2

The Machine Zone: Ignition

#ai #productivity #mentalhealth #sideprojects

7 min read

Nic Lydon

May 1

I Fixed My LLM OOM Crashes by Shrinking the Draft Model (Speculative Decoding on Real Hardware)

#ai #llm #machinelearning #performance

3 min read

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I Wrote an MCP Server for My 3D Printer

Vibe Coding Is to Software Development as Desire Paths Are to City Planning

I Put Gemma 4 Behind My Homelab AI Gateway. This Is the Beginning.

I Audited My AI Agents and Found That Most of Their Reasoning Wasn’t Observable

It’s Not Just the College Kids

I Trained an LLM on 75K of My Own Messages So It Would Stop Writing Like a Chatbot

I Built a Personal Knowledge Graph. Apple Had Already Built One on My Laptop.

Building a Skills Updater Pipeline for AI Platforms

25 Months of Waiting, 12 Hours of Work

I have NFC implants in both hands. I only installed one of them myself.

The Machine Zone: Ignition

I Fixed My LLM OOM Crashes by Shrinking the Draft Model (Speculative Decoding on Real Hardware)