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Independent creator exploring the intersection of security, infrastructure, and digital craft. Building at Internet Labs.
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Recent writings on security, infrastructure, and the open web
How to Build a Censorship-Resistant Tunnel with Aether and MASQUE
A step-by-step guide to compiling and configuring Aether, a Rust userspace implementation of Cloudflare WARP using MASQU…
Paying for AI Without Revealing Who You Are: Zero-Knowledge Inference Tokens Explained
Zero-knowledge proofs decouple payment identity from LLM inference requests. Here is how the cryptographic architecture …
VPS Security Baseline: 10-Point Checklist Before You Go Live
A practical pre-flight checklist for hardening a fresh Ubuntu 24.04 VPS before exposing any service to the internet.
The Best Code Is the Code You Never Wrote
Minimalism is a decision procedure, not a style. Why the lazy senior dev ships the smallest working diff, reuses the std…
Tracing Pirated Streams Using Forensic Watermarking
Broadcasters hide a per-subscriber code in live video, then recover it from pirate relays. A walk through the embed, det…
Fullstack Rust Beyond Electron: An Architectural Case Study of Dioxus
Shipping a 150MB Chromium shell for a basic desktop utility is an outdated architectural pattern. Here is how Dioxus use…
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