Field notes from a security engineer. Tools, training, travel.https://richtermax.com/en© 2026 Maximilian Richterhttps://richtermax.com/blog/crewing-greenloop/https://richtermax.com/blog/crewing-greenloop/He's crewing me at Kraichgau. I'm crewing him at Greenloop. One week between — a fair exchange between two people on parallel arcs. Notes before the start line.Fri, 15 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTFIELDhttps://richtermax.com/blog/ausbildung-first/https://richtermax.com/blog/ausbildung-first/Why I did the German vocational route before going to university — and why I'm starting the university part now anyway. Practice first, theory second.Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTNOTEhttps://richtermax.com/blog/building-aegis/https://richtermax.com/blog/building-aegis/What a year of building a deterministic security evaluation harness for tool-using AI agents actually taught me — about decisions, scope, and the discipline of staying boring.Sat, 25 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTSECURITYhttps://richtermax.com/blog/public-by-accident/https://richtermax.com/blog/public-by-accident/What strangers can pull from your social media. The gap between sharing one thing and revealing another — and what to actually do about it.Mon, 20 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTSECURITYhttps://richtermax.com/blog/why-not-notion/https://richtermax.com/blog/why-not-notion/What you give up when you let a hosted platform ship your portfolio for you. The case for owning the build, and the case for not.Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTSECURITYhttps://richtermax.com/blog/tt-season-2025-26/https://richtermax.com/blog/tt-season-2025-26/From 1670 to 1757. DJK Seifriedsberg's third Landesliga season — and the first one we finished mid-table. Notes on a year of giving up trying to be unorthodox.Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTFIELDhttps://richtermax.com/blog/two-weeks-in-shenzhen/https://richtermax.com/blog/two-weeks-in-shenzhen/An exchange program through Berufsschule 1 Kempten and Shenzhen University of Information Technology. The drone license was the least interesting thing I brought home.Sun, 15 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTNOTE