Jon Gaul

SSO dev in Tokyo, conference talker at abroad. Haven't been replaced by AI yet, but I'm working on it.

Talks

AI and Cybersecurity: Threats and OpportunitiesCybersecTW - 2025

A discussion on how AI will amplify existing cybersecurity threats and defenses. Uncomfortably accurate so far.

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Automating Victory: Beating browser games with accessible PythonVarious PyCons - 2023

The talk that got me invited to five different PyCons in five different countries.

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Single Sign-on, Endless PossibilitiesHENNGE Talks! - 2022

A crash course in OIDC and SAML: what happens when you click "Sign in with Google" and why you should add it to your site.

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Writing

Automating Victory: Beating browser games with accessible Python

Building a TASbot for Mamono Sweeper with Python, OpenCV, and an obsession with making something as good as possible. Back when giving a computer total control of your computer was a novel idea.

Part 1 → Part 2 →

A first-time recruiter’s MOSTLY-UNCENSORED TELL-ALL from PyCon US

In the US with a booth, cool jacket, and good intentions: a guide for the conference-goer looking to get hired.

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The Top Ten Free T-Shirts I Got from PyCons This Fall

A retrospective on traveling to 5 countries and the things I took away from each of them.

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Life as a Back-End Engineer: An Interview with Jon Gaul

Come read the most dazzlingly corporate thing I've ever written. A casual, off-the-cuff discussion that took hours of rewrites and revisions.

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😎🤝😎 ← That’s You And Me Being Less Online Next Year

Quitting Twitter with uBlock Origin and spite. Still off it at time of writing.

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はじめまして、東京！One Week to Get to Know Tokyo

Equal parts travel guide, travelog, and chance to show off the pics my mom took while she was in town.

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Projects

Sir Afraidalot and the Fearsome and Terrible Dragon

Despite the title, it's about a princess trying to solve a problem. Made no money but a crash course what it takes to make something real. Cute end result.

afraidalot.com → Visit the illustrator →

Injest

LLM-powered work history tool. Syncs GitHub, Slack, and Calendar data, resolves cross-source identities, and builds cascading summaries. Used to generate promotion docs for 3 coworkers and counting.

Solitaire for My Dad

Ad-free solitaire PWA. An app with an intended audience of one.

Play → Source →

KanjiBa

A micro-fiction kanji learning app. Generates stories and images to teach you a few kanji in context. An excuse to run a local AI pipeline across every computer I own.

BetterReads

Goodreads recommendation engine. Will the people that like your favorites have favorites you'll like?

Jon Gaul

Talks

AI and Cybersecurity: Threats and OpportunitiesCybersecTW - 2025

Automating Victory: Beating browser games with accessible PythonVarious PyCons - 2023

Single Sign-on, Endless PossibilitiesHENNGE Talks! - 2022

Writing

Automating Victory: Beating browser games with accessible Python

A first-time recruiter’s MOSTLY-UNCENSORED TELL-ALL from PyCon US

The Top Ten Free T-Shirts I Got from PyCons This Fall

Life as a Back-End Engineer: An Interview with Jon Gaul

😎🤝😎 ← That’s You And Me Being Less Online Next Year

はじめまして、東京！One Week to Get to Know Tokyo

Projects

Sir Afraidalot and the Fearsome and Terrible Dragon

Injest

Solitaire for My Dad

KanjiBa

BetterReads

Contact

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