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Inner Warden: an autonomous eBPF security agent that fights back Most security tools only send alerts. Then someone has to wake up, read lo

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Most MCP servers I've looked at assume an LLM is somewhere in the pipeline, for entity extraction, embedding, or ranking. Some of them call an externa

Reactive Programming Doesn't Need a Framework — Ownership Is Enough How Auralis, a two-crate Rust kernel, reduces reactive programming to t

I made a command-line program in Rust to quiz my kid on basic math, then added animations to it. Adding animations was a pretty interesting task, so I

This article explores the repurposing of Visual Studio Code Dev Tunnels for remote access and Command and Control (C2) during Red Team assessments. Th

What 14.8 Billion Fuzz Executions Revealed About My Rust Kernel Layer Over the past few days, I ran a long adversarial fuzzing campaign against the m

Over the past two weeks I've scanned the most-downloaded packages in four major ecosystems using Proof of Commitment — the same behavioral scoring too

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The Setup A few weeks ago, I published a proof-of-concept on Reddit: "Abstraction as Complement to Standardization." The core idea: avoid v

Exploring Backend Development with Rust and Go: A Journey into Modern APIs Hello, I’m Web Developer Travis McCracken, and today I want to share my in

I’m a backend & DevOps engineer with 16 years of experience in development, infrastructure, and server management. Currently building a SaaS platform

Headless Chrome is useful. It is also overused. For years, the default answer to “this page is hard to scrape” has been some version of: Use Pupp

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The day my CI pipeline went from 11 minutes to 90 seconds Last month I migrated a 240K-line TypeScript monorepo from a Node-based toolchain

The Problem When your GPU's KV cache fills up, inference engines evict blocks and discard them. The next request with the same prefix re-ru

I built three libraries independently. When I put them in the same project, the boundaries between them disappeared. This is what was left. The path:

cat customers.csv and the columns slide off the right edge of your terminal. You don't really want to open a spreadsheet just to spot-check eight row

Rust developers tend to assume their supply chain is safer than npm's. The language is safer. The compiler catches more. The ecosystem feels more cons