I build reliable systems, break insecure ones, and write about software engineering, distributed systems, web security, and Web3 infrastructure.
A decentralized research publishing platform enabling automatic royalty distribution among authors and cited researchers through smart contracts. Stores research papers on IPFS with citation-based revenue sharing.
A payload transformation toolkit supporting Base64, URL, Hex, Octal, and custom encodings for testing input validation and blacklist filtering mechanisms during security assessments.
Improved an open-source hash analysis utility by expanding lookup coverage, improving source aggregation, and optimizing workflow efficiency.
A deep dive into building rqlite, a lightweight distributed SQLite database using the Raft consensus algorithm.
June 15, 2025
Thoughts on writing software that lasts, the importance of simplicity, and why craftsmanship matters in an age of AI-generated code.
May 20, 2025