A simple, fact-based breakdown of the false accusations and ongoing layout copying.
You don't need to be technical to understand this. Below is exactly what took place — step by step — with no jargon and no spin.
In early May, I was away from my main computer and needed to run a quick test. To do it, I used the NCDL server to run a completely normal, public, open-source command-line tool called maigret.
That's the entire "incident." I used a public tool, on a machine I had access to, for a routine check.
Imagine typing a username into Google to see if they have a public Twitter or GitHub account. That is all this tool does.
It automatically searches the public internet to see if a username exists on other public websites. It's used every day by journalists, researchers, and IT staff. It's free, open-source, and listed publicly on GitHub.
A team member named Dulak saw a black terminal screen running a script, panicked (or pretended to), and went straight to the NCDL owners claiming I was "stealing private user data."
The timing matters: this happened right after Dulak lost an argument with me about website code. Instead of letting that go, Dulak used scary technical-sounding buzzwords ("hacker," "data theft," "exploit") to alarm non-technical staff. The result was exactly what he wanted: I was banned and blocked before anyone could check the facts.
No investigation. No screenshots reviewed. No questions asked. Just a panicked story, taken at face value.
$ maigret some-public-username [i] Checking https://twitter.com/some-public-username [+] found [i] Checking https://github.com/some-public-username [+] found [i] Checking https://reddit.com/user/some-public-username [-] not found [i] 0 private endpoints contacted · 0 credentials used · 0 databases queried $ # this is the entire "data theft."
Even though NCDL rewrote the hidden background code, they kept my original headline, my subtitle word-for-word, the same stats row, and the same three feature cards with identical titles and identical descriptions. Below: my original site from March on the left, the "revamped" live site from June on the right.
A direct, line-by-line comparison of what was kept from my March site in the June "revamp":
The point: the underlying code framework can be rewritten in anything — React, Vue, plain HTML, it doesn't matter. The writing, the layout, and the visual structure are still my original work. Rewriting the engine of a car doesn't make the body panels yours.
To the NCDL Owners and Staff:
This is a formal notice that your newly revamped website is using stolen and derivative layouts, text boxes, and structures originally created and owned by me. Changing the hidden coding framework does not give you permission to copy my visual work and exact words.
If all of my original designs, layouts, and word-for-word text boxes are not completely removed from ninecirclesdemonlist.com immediately, I will issue formal DMCA copyright takedown notices directly to your server hosting providers to take the site down, alongside further legal action. The evidence is public, archived on the Wayback Machine, and fully documented.
I've moved on from this small-pond drama. I'm no longer interested in arguing with people whose idea of a "security incident" is a black terminal window they didn't recognise.
Instead, I'm putting 100% of my energy into building massive, high-performance platforms for the competitive programming community — most notably RiseOJ, an online judge designed to scale to serious contest workloads, with real engineering behind it.
The work speaks for itself. The receipts above speak for themselves. That's all that needs to be said.