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The AI They Said Was Too Dangerous — Is Now Inside the NSA

4d ago · 9 min read · "The model isn't the product. The narrative is." Let me tell you a story about principles, power, and the art of the quiet deal. It has all the elements: A government ultimatum A CEO who said no A

How I Hacked My Own GPG Key: A Developer's Forensic War Story

6d ago · 9 min read · TL;DR — I forgot my GPG passphrase mid-release. Instead of generating a new key, I treated it as a self-CTF: clipboard forensics → password vault analysis → targeted 4-candidate dictionary attack. Cra

I Built a Code Screenshot Tool Inside My VS Code Extension — Here's How It Works (DotShare v3.4.0)

Jun 9 · 9 min read · You know that moment when you write a function you're genuinely proud of, and you want to share it on LinkedIn or Bluesky — but plain text just… doesn't do it justice? I've been there every week. I'm

I Built a Code Screenshot Tool Inside My VS Code Extension — Here's How It Works (DotShare v3.4.0)

Jun 3 · 9 min read · You know that moment when you write a function you're genuinely proud of, and you want to share it on LinkedIn or Bluesky — but plain text just… doesn't do it justice? I've been there every week. I'm

Securing DotShare 3.3: Inside the Rust Media API (Magic Bytes, Atomic Quotas, & Race Fixes) - Part 3

May 29 · 8 min read · In Part 2 of this series, we enforced Strict Separation and Fail-Fast validation to prevent silent scheduling failures and auto-refresh OAuth tokens in the background. But our users still needed to at