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 19

Capture the Reasoning Path, Not the Final State

#ai #documentation #devops #productivity

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Gemma 4 Challenge: Build With Gemma 4 Submission

Nic Lydon

May 18

Codex Chronicle was paying for every frame.

#gemmachallenge #devchallenge #ai #gemma

8 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

Capture the Reasoning Path, Not the Final State

Want to connect with Nic Lydon?

Codex Chronicle was paying for every frame.

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)