Essays
A thorough guide to sugar substitutes written by a Type 1 diabetic, covering natural alternatives, artificial sweeteners, sugar alcohols, and novel sweeteners with practical advice for baking and beverages.
Essays
Building an inexpensive HF Web-SDR receiver using a $5 Antminer S9 control board with Zynq SoC, capable of decoding AM, SSB, FT8, WSPR, and more for under $20 in total hardware cost.
AI
The author generated approximately 30 billion random 4KB files and used heuristic filters plus CUDA acceleration to find sequences that function as playable Atari 2600 ROMs, discovering 11 that produce dynamic video output.
Security
A Man-in-the-Middle attack on jabber.ru in 2023 exposed a systemic gap in TLS certificate issuance that affects millions of websites. Cloudflare's Universal SSL still does not implement RFC 8657 protections — and actively prevents users from doing so themselves.
Security
A security researcher discovers a vulnerability in Google's username recovery form that allows brute-forcing the phone number of any Google user using IPv6 rotation and BotGuard token reuse, earning a $5,000 bug bounty.
Career
A satirical guide to the growing trend of secretly holding multiple remote IT jobs simultaneously, covering everything from time management and role-playing across companies to inevitable burnout and spectacular collapse.
History
A retrospective of ten groundbreaking tech devices from the 1990s and early 2000s that were ahead of their time, from the Apple Newton and Nintendo Virtual Boy to the Electrolux Trilobite robot vacuum.
Essays
The 1976 Viking landers conducted a biological experiment on Mars that produced results consistent with microbial life, but the scientific community dismissed the findings. Decades of subsequent evidence may prove they were wrong.
DevOps
A practical guide covering ten essential practices for building production-ready Docker images, from choosing the right base image and multi-stage builds to security hardening and health checks.
Security
A detailed packet-capture analysis of Telegram's MTProto 2 protocol reveals that every message carries a cleartext 64-bit device identifier — auth_key_id — that persists across sessions, IP changes, and even Tor connections, enabling global tracking of any user by anyone who can observe Telegram's network traffic.
Security
A security researcher built a system to scan thousands of public GitHub repositories, recovering deleted files from Git history to find leaked API keys and tokens, earning over $64,000 in bug bounties.
Algorithms
A comprehensive tour of Galois fields (finite fields) from mathematical foundations through practical implementation, covering their central role in AES encryption, Reed-Solomon error correction, and linear feedback shift registers. Includes C++ code for GF(2⁸) arithmetic, look-up table optimization, tower field construction, and Intel's GFNI hardware instructions.