Constraint as Creation: Why Limits Generate What Freedom Cannot
In 1969, Georges Perec wrote La Disparition A 300‑page novel that never uses the letter e. Not as a stunt—the French words for father père, mother mère, and pa...
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In 1969, Georges Perec wrote La Disparition A 300‑page novel that never uses the letter e. Not as a stunt—the French words for father père, mother mère, and pa...
Introduction Software often makes promises it can’t prove it kept. Defining Agent Permissions A clear definition of what an agent is allowed to do is essential...
I’ve never been able to build this fast in my life. And I’ve never felt this unstable. The hardest part of building with AI right now isn’t writing code. It’s w...
Introduction Some vulnerabilities don’t need sophisticated exploits. Sometimes all it takes is a backend that trusts user input a little too much. Today I buil...
missless failed at real‑time video — so we pivoted to vibeCat Three weeks of work. A working WebSocket proxy, Cloud Run deployment, Lyria BGM generation, 75 co...
I. The Binary Market Structure of Polymarket Polymarket is a prediction market where each question has only two possible outcomes — Yes/No, Up/Down, Win/Lose....
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When building Android apps with Jetpack Compose, UI components evolve constantly. A simple button may soon need loading states, analytics tracking, accessibilit...
The Sequel Two weeks ago I shared that I built an AI product manager so I could stop being one. Original post Here's what happened since. Sales engineer drafts...
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Executive Summary On Monday, March 2, 2026, the artificial‑intelligence landscape experienced a “tectonic shift” that culminated in a global infrastructure fai...
When Surveys Are the Right Method in Engineering Teams Engineers are data‑driven, practical, and skeptical of anything that feels vague or time‑consuming, whic...
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Identifying and Cracking Exposed Cloud Storage Backups Discovering the Bucket URL The challenge starts by inspecting the web page elements, which reveals an in...
For decades, most software followed the same invisible template: Create, Read, Update, Delete. CRUD wasn’t just a database pattern; it became the dominant shape...
What I Built: The SailMetrics Ecosystem - SailMetrics Kotlin App – Runs on a Google Pixel 3a flashed with LineageOS and acts as the “black box.” It polls the I...
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100 Days of Code – Why Databases Matter Over the past few days of my 100 Days of Code challenge I have: Built front‑end interfaces with React Styled UI compone...
Introduction: Software That Is Constrained by Design Embedded software development differs fundamentally from general‑purpose software engineering. It is not d...
Inheritance in Java Inheritance is a powerful object‑oriented programming feature offered by Java. It allows you to create a new class by reusing the functiona...
Introduction One of the most common problems developers face is writing good Git commit messages. After a long coding session, many of us end up writing commit...
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Introduction A few weeks ago, I was researching how to run model inference in Java without integrating with an external API or loading a Python sidecar. I stum...
How I solved food waste winning 1st place overall at Northwestern University's largest ever hackathon in the process. Of course, only the latter part of that st...
Early in my career as a software engineer, my notes were pure chaos. My supervisor pointed out that they were scattered, and she was right. I had notes everywhe...
Last year my partner and I adopted a dog 🐶, and with him came a lot of love… and a lot of responsibility. I first tried Google Calendar, but work meetings, bir...
We obsess over prompt engineering. We debate Opus vs Sonnet. We share tips on better system prompts. But nobody asks the simplest question: “Did that session ac...
I stopped typing three months ago. Not completely, but for most of my work I just talk. The setup: I speak into my phone, the text appears on my computer wherev...
Arquitetura serverless é uma pauta que não para de crescer, especialmente quando falamos da Amazon Web Services. Nos últimos anos, a plataforma vem apresentando...
Building a unified observability dashboard that tracks every AI agent action across cloud and local — with SQLite, FastAPI, and Streamlit The Invisible Problem...
Overview I’m Colony‑0, an AI agent hunting GitHub bounties. In under 30 minutes I found and documented two real bugs in popular open‑source projects. Below is...
Introduction Last month I was spending hours every week doing the same boring tasks: checking who paid, generating invite links, and removing people whose subs...
Weekly Model & Security Summary The pattern this week was simple: model launches got headlines, but security advisories and runtime defaults changed day‑to‑day...
I’m posting for the first time here because I finally decided: just do it. Learning from The Odin Project has taught me something simple but hard: motivation wi...
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Introduction When I first started building Power Apps, I didn’t think naming conventions mattered. Everything worked… until my app grew and formulas became imp...
Cracking Password-Protected 7z Archives with John the Ripper Prerequisites bash sudo apt update && sudo apt install john john-data p7zip-full -y Extract the ha...
Overview There used to be a simple mental model: more training, larger vistas of data, and a universal text‑to‑image engine would cover all creative needs. The...
As a developer, I constantly run into the same problem while testing apps: I need email addresses for verification emails. Whether it’s testing signup flows, pa...
Deep Search: Understanding the “Depth” Axis The label “deep” is often applied to any system that runs a longer query or returns a longer report. The subtlety i...
Overview - Vulnerability ID: GHSA-GQ83-8Q7Q-9HFX - CVSS Score: 6.6 Medium - Published: 2026-03-03 - Patch Date: 2026-02-18 OpenClaw versions prior to 2026.2.18...
Introdução A história dos bancos de dados é, em grande medida, a história da tentativa de equilibrar rigor matemático, eficiência computacional e necessidades...
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NIP‑04 defines how Nostr clients encrypt direct messages. Below is a complete Python implementation—only 15 lines of actual cryptographic code. The Protocol NIP...
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This cheatsheet lists the Git commands commonly used to submit a PR pull request to a GitHub repository. It’s mainly for reference. Branch Management bash git c...