Hi, I'm Sascha.

Sr. Director of Infrastructure, security manager, builder, and tinkerer.

This is a repository for my interests — from tech and coding to 3D printing and construction. No tracking. No ads. Just content.

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The Anatomy of Layer 1: Legacy Inertia and the Deprecation of the Crossover Cable

Apr 18, 2026 •

Layer1 Infrastructure TCO

An architectural analysis of Ethernet's physical layer evolution, the T568A/B standardization paradox, and how silicon ultimately abstracted the crossover cable.

The Tag That Shouldn't Work: Platform Fragmentation and the 144-Byte Payload

Apr 3, 2026 •

Hardware NFC W3C

How a cheap NFC sticker exposes the structural gap between W3C standards and iOS platform policies

The STB Fallacy: What 3dfx’s Corpse Teaches Us About Nvidia’s AIB Squeeze

Mar 22, 2026 •

Hardware Architecture Supply Chain Vendor Management

How the most violent performance delta in consumer compute history was undone by supply chain hubris, and why Nvidia's current strategy is succeeding where 3dfx failed.

Latest Projects

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AnySpool: Client-Side NFC Tag Provisioning

Maintained

Apr 3, 2026

A serverless web utility for reverse-engineering and writing proprietary 3D printer telemetry to standard NTAG213 NFC stickers.

SinterForge

Experimental

Jan 30, 2026

An experiment in procedural texturing for 3D printing, and why Blender was the wrong tool for the job.