Selected writing.

A curated list — not a CMS firehose. Order is by impact, not date. Talks live on /speaking.

Book
2023

1337 Use Cases for ChatGPT & Other Chatbots in the AI-Driven Era

An operator’s field guide to LLM workflows, expanded from a Medium essay read by 10,000+ people. Cited at least twice in academic literature on AI-in-education and graph databases.

Book · 280pp
Methodology essays
2024

ACTFOIA — Freedom of Information, automated

The methodology behind 15,000 FOIA requests to 5,000 Romanian public bodies. Templates, parsers, escalation timers, the legal scaffolding. The talk version landed at HOPE XV.

14-min read
2024

ADR-driven development — the practice, not the artifact

Why a 443-record decision log is the cheapest source of context for the LLM agent already in your engineering pipeline. The longer treatment runs at the masterclass.

11-min read
2023

Rootless computing — a manifesto for self-hosting in 2025

On running your own stack on Hetzner / Proxmox / Kubernetes, agent-aware. Drafted in public on Medium; the formal version lands when ServerClaw 1.0 ships.

Draft
Civic-tech & investigative
2017

GIJC17 — presenting ACTFOIA, a tool for journalists and civic activists fighting corruption

The first public write-up of the FOIA methodology, delivered at the Global Investigative Journalism Conference.

8-min read
2017

Analyzing protest trends in Romania 2012–2017 using Facebook data

POINT Conference, Sarajevo. The dataset, the methodology, and the limits of Facebook-as-civic-infrastructure.

Slides
Security
2019

sched.com — disclosing a path-traversal flaw across 4,467 events

How a double-slash URL bypass exposed 1.7M user records, the responsible-disclosure timeline (vendor patched within 24h), and what Facebook’s Associate General Counsel said next.

12-min read
Talks & teaching
2026

ADR-Driven Development Masterclass · Cohort 4

A live cohort course for engineering leads who already have an LLM agent in their pipeline and have noticed the agent makes bad calls. The fix is upstream of the agent.

June 2026
2024–

MrData on YouTube — OSINT explainers and data storytelling

Short, evidence-led explainers about open-source intelligence and structured public data.

Channel
Code & open source
2025

Rootless Computing — a methodology for self-hosted, AI-native operations

The longer treatment of the practice behind ServerClaw: how to run a serious stack on Hetzner / Proxmox / Kubernetes, agent-aware, with every decision logged in an ADR. The methodology has its own canonical site.

Methodology
2014–

github.com/baditaflorin — 100+ public repositories

A decade of open-source work across data infrastructure, civic tooling, OSINT, MCP servers, and Go services. 293 public repos, ~1,100 stars across the network. The repos below are the ones worth starting with.

Index
2025

0exec — agent execution catalog

A catalog of safe, composable execution primitives for LLM agents.

Live
2025

AI & LLM operator courses

The expanded teaching surface from 1337 Use Cases for ChatGPT. Cohorts for engineering teams and civic-sector operators who want the practitioner’s map, not the marketing one.

Courses