Research notes, prototypes, and technical writing from Branta Labs. https://brantalabs.io/blog/ en-us Tue, 26 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://brantalabs.io/blog/2026/05/certificate-transparency-logs/ https://brantalabs.io/blog/2026/05/certificate-transparency-logs/ Tue, 26 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nicholas TenBrink Public append-only logs of TLS certificates—and how domain owners query them to spot issuers and hostnames they did not authorize. https://brantalabs.io/blog/2026/05/rules-processing-patent-published/ https://brantalabs.io/blog/2026/05/rules-processing-patent-published/ Tue, 26 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nicholas TenBrink A pending patent on context-aware rule objects addresses sequential rule engines, with a note on work that cannot be discussed yet. https://brantalabs.io/blog/2026/05/start-with-the-problem/ https://brantalabs.io/blog/2026/05/start-with-the-problem/ Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Nicholas TenBrink Why we treat problem definition as work in its own right, and what changes when you give a hard problem the time it actually needs.