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PaddySpeaks

A connected library of essays, sacred texts, career tools and working technology experiments — written and built by Paddy Iyer.

Changelog

What’s New

The changes worth knowing about — not every commit. New essays of note, sacred-text work, Interview Studio and JobSignal features, demos, corrections, and changes to privacy and security.

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PaddySpeaks becomes one connected platform

Five journeys (Read, Learn, Prepare, Find, Build) now organise the site; a single search covers essays, sacred texts down to the verse, Interview Studio, companies and demos; the Atlas shows how they connect; and the homepage can pick up where you left off — from this browser's own history, never a server.

Sources, corrections and one source of truth for every number

Every sacred-text app now has a Sources & Verification panel that says honestly where its text came from — including when that is not recorded. A public corrections log lists meaningful fixes. Every public statistic is now derived from the content itself, which corrected the question, data-model and sacred-text counts that had drifted.

Privacy claims now match the code, and a privacy policy

Pages whose privacy promises went further than the code — claiming nothing was ever sent while loading analytics — were corrected; the Privacy Console gained a step-by-step data-flow section and dropped its tracking pixel; the analytics server now honours Global Privacy Control for every request. A plain-language privacy policy, terms, disclaimer and copyright page were added.

API hardening, secret scanning and backups

The site's API now only answers the site's own pages, compares the admin password in constant time and locks out repeated wrong guesses, meters the privacy scan proxy and re-checks every redirect it follows, and deletes expired leaderboard data daily. CI now scans for committed secrets and audits dependencies.

Accessibility baseline

Search is now a proper keyboard- and screen-reader-accessible dialog; every page gets a visible focus ring, a skip link and reduced motion on request; sacred-text search boxes are labelled. An automated WCAG 2.2 check runs on every change and may not get worse.

JobSignal launches — jobs that still exist

A job search whose promise is that every role is still live on the employer's own careers page, re-checked every four hours. Reposts are labelled as reposts with their history, never as newly posted, and search keeps to the role you asked for.

JobSignal: locations corrected

About 9% of roles showed a place that does not exist. Multi-location postings now list every place, and each city has one spelling.

Abhirami Andhadhi becomes a layered interpretation

Seventeen verses gained word-by-word breakdowns, interpretation and cross-links to the Lalitha Sahasranama. Inherited English meanings found to be misaligned are labelled as under review rather than presented as settled.

Three executive AI & data demos

The AI Executive Command Center, Revenue Leakage & Margin Intelligence Hub and Enterprise Resilience War Room join the Lakehouse demo — each on clearly labelled synthetic data.

New essay: The Job Posting Is Not the Job

A visual field guide to the 2026 hiring market: how to tell whether a role is real, who is behind it, and how to get from 'Apply' to a conversation.

Devotional Music: the keertanas of Bhadrachala Ramadasu

A new series, one song per article: Telugu text and transliteration, word-by-word meanings, ragam and talam where sources agree (and the disagreement where they do not), and curated listening.

Privacy Console

A working tool that finds where your personal information is published, checks each result is really you, and walks the removal through — with your profile kept in your own browser — alongside a local command-line agent.

Contact and testimonials

A contact form, and testimonials that are never published automatically: every one is reviewed first, and only approved ones appear.

Every essay, as it is published, is in the essay feed. Interview Studio's daily question additions are on its own What’s New page.