Over the last few months I became a bit of a compulsive open source contributor. Translating Linux kernel documentation into Portuguese, a merged PR in uutils/coreutilshttps://github.com/uutils/coreutils, a few fixes in Elixir libraries I had used be...

I Built a Serializer That Refuses to Own Your Data How The Singularity Workshop turned a recurring binary-IO problem into a tiny .NET boundary—and why the smallest part of the design may be the most important part. There is a particular kind of so...

Every developer knows the feeling. A task slips from Monday to Wednesday. Another one that was due Friday lands the following Tuesday. Nobody panics. The team says it'll catch up. Dr. Atif Ansar says that's exactly how billion-dollar data center pro...

For nearly eight years, I’ve worked as an over-the-road truck driver. That means a normal workday can involve far more than simply driving from Point A to Point B. A commercial driver is constantly balancing Hours of Service, appointment times, dete...

Initial Discovery Using my custom Frida scripthttps://codeshare.frida.re/@KostasEreksonas/crypto-discovery/ for cryptographic method detection in Android applications, I captured Java Cipher class doing a decryption operation, along with it's stack...

A few years ago, “real-time face swap” usually implied a local setup: download the model, install the right runtime, make sure CUDA works, and hope the GPU has enough headroom to keep up with a webcam. That model still makes sense for some users. Bu...

Every week, a new paper or blog post claims to have found the "magic system prompt" that prevents LLM prompt injection. And every week, someone with a creative base64 payload, zero-width spaces, or a nested translation trick shatters it in five minut...

The spam got through every time. The only message our spam trap ever stopped, as far as anyone can tell, was mine. For 100 days, from the day the contact form on mantek.io went live in May until the end of August, it carried a honeypot: a hidden fie...

After completing my Personal Expense Tracker, I started my fourth project: a URL Shortener. This was also my first web backend project, so the goal was to move from CLI applications into building a small web application and get more practical experie...

Integrating Large Language Models LLMs into production pipelines introduces critical data leakage vectors. For platform engineers and security architects, autonomous AI agents present a unique challenge: how do you allow models to interact with li...

When I started building BitVoices, I knew why I wanted it to exist before I knew exactly what it needed to be. The idea grew naturally out of the mission behind NotableBIT: amplifying Black excellence in tech. I wanted Black technologists to have a p...

The practical goal is citation eligibility, not a guaranteed placement. A public page needs to be discoverable, understandable, specific enough to support a claim, and honest about where its evidence stops. Those same qualities improve the page for o...

Why the AI-coding era needs a local-only AI secret manager — and how I ended up writing one in a single Python file !concealer — your secrets stay encrypted on your machine; your assistant only ever sees the masked versionhttps://concealer.fxerkan....

Plenty of us here build browser games or interactive canvas projects, and the desktop build usually feels finished long before the phone build does. These are the five problems that show up first when the same game meets a real handset, and the fixes...