projects

samaydlette.com

Personal website, central hub for communication to the world, and proof of concept for compliance automation.

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InsightWeaver

An app that curates information from a wide range of reputable sources and creates custom daily reporting for me on events and trends that I care about.

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A practice mirror for Chen Taijiquan. Move through a silk-reeling drill and pose estimation compares your form to a recognized master frame-by-frame, translating per-joint deviations into instructor-style feedback grounded in Chen terminology. Private beta — login required.

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research

Automated Security Compliance

A field report on automating security compliance end to end. Every deploy derives signed, machine-readable compliance documents from one canonical inventory, re-checks them against the live system, and projects a single 800-53 Rev 5 control hub into seven framework views: FedRAMP Rev 5 Moderate, FedRAMP 20x Class C, 800-53 Rev 4, CMMC Level 2, GovRAMP with the CJIS overlay, and both TX-RAMP levels. The paper separates the two things people call reciprocity (the government decision and the architecture decision), walks the system control-family by control-family, and ties it to the business case for continuous, verifiable compliance. Everything is verifiable from /.well-known/ with curl, jq, and cosign, for a few dollars a month.

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Being in the Loop: Thresholds, Eigenvalues, and the View From Nowhere

Systems near a tipping point announce themselves before they cross, in signatures you can measure without knowing the equations. This follows that claim from a guitarist sustaining a note, through the mathematics of critical transitions, to a security operations floor at three in the morning, and on to the two ways a system stops being told it is wrong: by accident, as drift, and by design, in rooms arranged so that no correction can reach the person at the centre. The measurement then fails hardest where it is needed most, because a system that senses its own boundary rewrites the rules the estimate was fitted to. Which leaves nowhere outside the loop to stand and watch.