Leaving Medium: Why I'm Writing Here Now
Every article I published on Medium built Medium's domain, not mine. From today, everything I write lives here — security research, engineering notes, philosophy, all of it.
For the last few years, everything I wrote went to Medium. Security research, CVE breakdowns, essays on psychology and money — all of it built an audience, and all of it built Medium's domain authority instead of mine.
That ends today.
Why move
Three reasons, in order of importance:
- Ownership. My words, my domain, my ranking. When someone searches for the topics I write about, I want arafatops.com in the results — not a medium.com URL that happens to have my name on it.
- No paywall roulette. Medium decides who reads what and when. Here, everything is open, always.
- One home. My research, projects, CVEs, and writing now live in the same place, cross-linked, in the same terminal-green theme you're looking at now.
What to expect
I'm committing to writing daily. Not every post will be a 3000-word teardown — that's the point. Two kinds of writing live here:
- Essays — long-form, researched, polished. Supply chain attacks, IDOR hunting, how dopamine actually works.
- Notes — short daily thoughts. Raw, quick, honest. Philosophy, observations, things I learned today.
$ cd blog/
$ ls
security/ engineering/ business/ psychology/ life/
$ echo "see you tomorrow"The old Medium articles stay where they are — links to them live in the archive below the blog index. Everything new starts here.