Leyan Lo, smiling in a blue shirt and gray suit

Leyan Lo


Software engineer

Amateur violinist
Former world record Rubik’s cube solver

Blog

  •  ·  6 min read

    How to Deal With an Email Bomb Attack

    I’ve been hit by a couple of email bomb attacks recently. The first sign wasn’t one suspicious message. It was hundreds of perfectly ordinary signup emails arriving almost at once. The August 2 attack produced 350 unique messages. Of those, 204 arrived in the first 30 minutes, and the flood peaked a…

    A mock inbox with 350 new signup emails and one booking confirmation hidden among them
  •  ·  4 min read

    Downloading photos and videos from Procare

    A step-by-step guide to downloading the original media from your authorized Procare parent gallery and keeping it up to date.

    Laptop gallery showing worksheets, snacks, playground time, a field trip, art, and cooking moving into local folders
  •  ·  5 min read

    Generating Open Graph Images with Astro, Satori, and Sharp

    Until recently, every page on this site shared the same Open Graph image. It worked, but sharing a post titled Hello World with a generic site logo was not especially exciting. I wanted each post to have its own social card without opening an image editor every time I published something. I asked Co…

    An illustration of a blog post passing through vector and pixel stages to become a social card
  •  ·  4 min read

    I Asked AI to Port MilkDrop to the Web. It Didn’t.

    I thought I had used AI to port MilkDrop3 to the web. I had not. The realization came embarrassingly late. The app was already built and deployed, and I was thinking about writing a post called Working with AI to Port MilkDrop to the Web. Before I started, I asked one basic question: what part of Ch…

    Churn rendering the Hurricane Nightmare preset by Rovastar and Geiss

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