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Deep dives into web development, DevOps practices, and software engineering insights from real-world experience.
mr-robot-crunch: A Parallel Wordlist Generator for Password Testing
Every targeted password attack starts the same way: you have a few facts about a target — a name, a pet, a birth year, a company — and you need to turn them into the thousands of plausible passwords a person might actually pick. Doing that by hand is hopeless, and generic wordlists waste time on guesses that have nothing to do with your target.
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Nishan
Every time you open a browser, your connection broadcasts more than you'd expect: your IP address, your approximate location, the ISP routing your traffic, the network you sit behind. Most people never see any of it. I built Nishan to make that invisible signal visible — instantly, cleanly, and without the clutter of ad-heavy "what is my IP" sites.
Reclaiming Disk Space from Node, React Native & Expo Junk
A zero-dependency Python CLI that safely finds and removes Node, React Native, and Expo junk — node_modules, Xcode DerivedData, Metro, Gradle, and more.
The Quantum Illusion: Why Practical Quantum Computers Might Never Be Real
A deep technical analysis of the physical, mathematical, and algorithmic limitations of quantum computing, explaining why a general-purpose quantum supercomputer remains an illusion.
Claude Opus 4.8: Codebase-Scale Autonomy, Shorter Latency, and the Honesty Breakthrough
A deep technical analysis of Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.8 release: highlighting dynamic workflows for codebase-scale migrations, 3x cheaper Fast mode, and game-changing alignment and honesty benchmarks.
Software Development with AI: What Actually Works in 2026
A deep technical analysis of the state of AI-assisted software engineering. Move beyond autocomplete copilots and discover how global repository indexing, autonomous tool agency, and self-correcting execution loops are reshaping developer workflows.
Beyond the IDE: The Rise of AI-Native Software Development Environments
Exploring how AI-Native SDEs are fundamentally shifting the development paradigm from human-authored code to AI-orchestrated system synthesis.
The AI Productivity Paradox: Why "Work Slop" is Killing Your Engineering Culture
A deep technical analysis of Solow's Paradox 2.0, exploring how the corporate rush to replace human engineering talent with generative models is resulting in fragile systems, legal liabilities, and a collapsing talent pipeline.
Small Language Models (SLMs) for Edge Computing: A Developer’s Guide
Discover how Small Language Models (SLMs) are shifting intelligence to the edge. Learn about weight quantization (GGUF), knowledge distillation, and how to deploy a local, secure inference server using llama.cpp.
Harbor Registry — Reference, Admin Best Practices & Usage
A comprehensive guide to self-hosting Harbor Registry. Learn how to configure Docker Compose, harden your RBAC, integrate OIDC, and enforce Trivy vulnerability gating for private enterprise artifacts.
Why Your AI Agent Belongs on a VPS (Not Your Laptop)
Running autonomous agents on your local machine is highly unstable. Explore the technical pitfalls of local execution and learn why a VPS with process supervision and strict security hardening is the only choice.
Security-First DevOps: Mastering Supply Chain Integrity and Zero-Trust CI/CD
In an era of sophisticated supply chain attacks, perimeter security is no longer enough. Learn how to transition your DevOps pipelines to a Zero-Trust architecture, implementing non-negotiable supply chain integrity from code commit to production.
Google Gemma 4: The Open Model That Changes What Local AI Means
Google just dropped Gemma 4 — four models, Apache 2.0 license, 256K context, native function calling, and benchmarks that beat models 20x their size. Here is everything developers need to know, plus copy-paste Ollama commands to run it right now.
The Software Apocalypse Is Here: Tech Stocks Down 30%, Tariffs, and the AI Recession Warning Nobody Wants to Hear
Software stocks are in a bear market. Tariffs are rattling Wall Street. And one research firm just published a report arguing that the AI boom — if it works exactly as promised — could trigger a white-collar recession and a market crash.
Oracle Cuts 30,000 Jobs to Fund AI: The Email That Ended 30,000 Careers at 6am
Oracle sent termination emails to up to 30,000 employees at 6am on March 31, 2026 — no meetings, no warnings, just a cold email.
Anthropic's Claude Code Source Leak: What Was Exposed and Why It Matters
Anthropic accidentally leaked 512,000 lines of Claude Code's internal TypeScript source through a packaging mistake in npm version 2.1.88 — and competitors are already studying every line.
Cloudflare Is Reading Your React App's Internal State to Block Bots — Here's How It Works
Every ChatGPT message silently triggers an encrypted Cloudflare program in your browser. A developer decrypted 377 of them and found something unexpected.
Google Gemini 3 Flash: The Real-Time AI That's Changing How We Search, Code, and Build Apps
Google's Gemini 3 Flash is here — frontier-level intelligence at near real-time speed, powering Search Live, handling 100 function calls simultaneously.
Run Qwen-Coder Locally with Ollama: Free AI Coding Assistant Setup Guide 2026
Qwen2.5-Coder is a powerful open-source coding AI that rivals GPT-4o on benchmarks — and you can run it completely free on your own machine using Ollama.
OpenClaw: How a Personal AI Assistant Grew From Zero to Thousands of Users — And the Security Risks You Should Know
OpenClaw went from a side project to one of the most talked-about self-hosted AI assistants in less than a month.
AI companies will trick you.
concerns about AI model performance drops before new releases. Are AI companies creating artificial improvements? Learn why reviewing AI-generated code still matters.
Ubuntu Server Setup Guide for Node.js + PM2 - Part 2
Ubuntu Server Setup Guide for Node.js + PM2 - Part 2
Ubuntu Server Setup Guide for Node.js + PM2 (Advanced Production)
Ubuntu Server Setup Guide for Node.js + PM2 (Advanced Production)
Complete K3s DevOps Guide for Beginners
Complete K3s DevOps Guide for Beginners
PDF Thumbnail Generation Fix for Ubuntu Server
PDF Thumbnail Generation Fix for Ubuntu Server
SSH Passwordless Authentication Guide
SSH Passwordless Authentication Guide
Ubuntu Server PM2 Setup Guide
Ubuntu Server PM2 Setup Guide
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Ubuntu Server Resource Logger Guide
Ubuntu Server Security Guide
Ubuntu Server Security Guide
Node.js + Docker
A comprehensive guide on building a Node.js TypeScript project integrated with MongoDB and Docker.
React Dev Global State
An introduction to rebaz-dev-global-state, a package designed to reduce your code base and enable faster coding with simplified global state management in React applications.