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Security in Depth, Vol. V - Cloud-Native & Supply Chain Security
2026-07-02
The finale of the Security Architecture series. Securing the ephemeral: container and Kubernetes hardening, infrastructure-as-code scanning, the shared responsibility model, DevSecOps and CI/CD pipeline security, SBOMs, SLSA, and defending the software supply chain.
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13 minutes
Security in Depth, Vol. IV - Detection, Response & Threat Intelligence
2026-06-29
The fourth volume of the Security Architecture series. Assume breach: the blue team's operational reality. Telemetry pipelines, detection engineering with MITRE ATT&CK and the Pyramid of Pain, SIEM/SOAR, threat hunting, the incident response lifecycle, and digital forensics.
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13 minutes
Security in Depth, Vol. III - Cryptography Engineering
2026-06-23
The third volume of the Security Architecture series. Opening the magic box: symmetric and asymmetric primitives, hashing and KDFs, the real TLS 1.3 handshake, forward secrecy, key management, the post-quantum transition, and the catalogue of ways engineers get crypto catastrophically wrong.
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13 minutes
Security in Depth, Vol. II - Identity, Access & the Zero Trust Frontier
2026-06-13
The second volume of the Security Architecture series. A deep dive into identity as the new perimeter: authentication factors, OAuth 2.1 and OIDC, session management, RBAC vs ABAC, PKI, secrets management, and building a real Zero Trust architecture.
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15 minutes
Troubleshooting Linux Networking Hurdles
2026-06-11
A developer's troubleshooting journal resolving OpenVPN DNS issues, handling public VPN anti-bot blocks, routing through custom server profiles on a budget, and setting up WireGuard split tunneling on Arch Linux.
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6 minutes
Do We Name Things Right?
2026-05-25
A critical look at the philosophy, linguistics, and Islamic theology of naming things, exploring the tension between Naturalism, Conventionalism, and Surah Al-Baqarah.
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4 minutes
The Rise of the Em Dash
2026-05-02
An exploration of how digital communication and LLMs are shifting our use of punctuation from formal colons to dynamic em dashes.
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3 minutes
The Comprehension Crisis: When AI Writes Code We No Longer Understand
2026-04-11
AI tools have turned tasks that used to take days into mere hours, yet we are shipping code we don't fully understand.
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5 minutes