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Why a systems engineer spent the last few months building diffusion models from scratch — and what transferred, what didn't, and what's next.
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Free Checklist →I May Be Too Opinionated (And Unemployed)
A deep technical dive into building Carv, a programming language that compiles to C for ARM Cortex-M. Lexer internals, Pratt parsing, type inference, ownership tracking, C codegen, state-machine async/await, and the 11 bugs I haven't fixed yet.
• 16 min read •
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Application Security • Part 3
How CVE-2026-33017 Turned AI Workflows Into Remote Shells
A deep technical breakdown of the Langflow unauthenticated RCE — how exec() with zero sandboxing allowed attackers to compromise AI pipelines within 20 hours of disclosure.
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Application Security • Part 2
XSS in TanStack Query Apps — Testing Methodology, Real CVEs, and Every Fix Layer
A developer-focused breakdown of how Cross-Site Scripting manifests in SPAs using TanStack Query, with a confirmed CVE walkthrough and layered remediation.
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Rust Is Opinionated (And Why That Matters for the C Replacement Question)
Rust's strictness is by design. But being a C replacement isn't about syntax — it's about trust, tooling, and domains where C never had a real competitor anyway.
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Vercel's Zero Language Is Interesting. It Won't Matter.
Zero is a systems language designed for AI agents. Structured JSON diagnostics, capability-based I/O, sub-10KB binaries. The idea sounds compelling until you look at how agents actually work with compilers today.
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Systems Programming Journey • Part 3
I Thought Building a Game Boy Emulator Would Teach Me Zig. It Mostly Taught Me How Little I Knew
Confusion, rewrites, bugs at 2am, and failed ROMs — building a Game Boy emulator from scratch taught me that systems programming is mostly staring at wrong assumptions. Here's what the code actually looks like.
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Application Security • Part 1
How Attackers Chain Command Injection, Race Conditions, and Blind RCE — And How You Stop Every Step
A developer-focused breakdown of a complete attack chain, with concrete fixes at each stage.
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How to Build Programming Experience When No One Will Hire You
A tactical guide for developers without formal experience: open source contributions, SaaS clones, freelance platforms, and building 'fake but real' projects that actually get you hired.
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Systems Programming Journey • Part 2
I Rewrote My OS Kernel in Rust (And the Borrow Checker Saved Me)
Karion-OS started in C. Then a heap allocator bug I couldn't find pushed me to port the whole thing to Rust. Here's what actually happened.
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Why Most JavaScript Backends Are Architecturally Weak
Looking beyond framework-first thinking to find real performance.
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Systems Programming Journey • Part 1
Building a Lightweight Runtime
Designing systems without external dependencies.
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