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October  18

What Actually Died When Deno Joined Cloudflare

October 20, 2026 · 12 min · Hanh Pham

The Roadster Does Not Fly: Two Gs Down and Two Seconds Up

October 19, 2026 · 11 min · Hanh Pham

Karpathy’s Funnel: The Arithmetic Holds and the Denominator Is a Choice

October 18, 2026 · 12 min · Hanh Pham

The Patch That Isn’t There: palera1n and the Rootless Era

October 17, 2026 · 14 min · Hanh Pham

Most of This Jailbreak Was Never Published: unc0ver and the Userland Era

October 16, 2026 · 10 min · Hanh Pham

REA: An Introduction, and the Game-Reversing Scene It Arrived In

October 15, 2026 · 12 min · Hanh Pham

One Stale Pointer Before the OS Boots: checkm8 and the Boot ROM Era

October 15, 2026 · 12 min · Hanh Pham

Under the Hood of REA: Evidence Ids, Refusals, and a Four-Gigabyte Ceiling

October 15, 2026 · 11 min · Hanh Pham

The Reachable Surface: WebKit and the App Layer

October 10, 2026 · 13 min · Hanh Pham

Read the Fix First: A Patch-Margin Method for XNU Research

October 9, 2026 · 23 min · Hanh Pham

Reading iOS Without a Jailbreak: Mach-O, dyld, and Shared Cache Topology

October 9, 2026 · 16 min · Hanh Pham

iOS Is Not One Boundary: From App Sandbox to Secure Enclave

October 7, 2026 · 20 min · Hanh Pham

An Uncensored Model Is Not a Free Model

October 6, 2026 · 15 min · Hanh Pham

The Oldest Light: How We Measure 13.8 Billion Years Without a Stopwatch

October 2, 2026 · 8 min · Hanh Pham

Meta-Learning and the Meta-Human: Building Your Personal AI Cognitive Scaffold

October 2, 2026 · 8 min · Hanh Pham

The Renaissance Developer: Why AI Makes Systems Thinking the Ultimate Moat

October 2, 2026 · 12 min · Hanh Pham

Docker BuildKit in CI: The Economics of Network I/O vs CPU Compilation

October 2, 2026 · 6 min · Hanh Pham

The ISA Is a Contract, Not a Benchmark: What the Instruction Set Still Costs You in 2026

October 1, 2026 · 13 min · Hanh Pham

September  17

Can Every Problem Be Solved by an Algorithm? Alan Turing’s 1936 Proof

September 30, 2026 · 9 min · Hanh Pham

GitOps Reality with ArgoCD: When Declarative State Fights the Database

September 30, 2026 · 7 min · Hanh Pham

CFS Quota Throttling & Silent OOMKills: The Fallacy of Kubernetes CPU Limits

September 28, 2026 · 8 min · Hanh Pham

Zero-Downtime Kubernetes: Why preStop Sleep 5 Is an Architectural Anti-Pattern

September 26, 2026 · 8 min · Hanh Pham

Terraform State Decomposition: Blast Radius vs The Integration Tax

September 24, 2026 · 6 min · Hanh Pham

Deleting Language from the LLM: Inside TypeSafe’s Jev and Decision Models

September 22, 2026 · 9 min · Hanh Pham

The Four-Layer AI Coding Stack: Why Your Assistant Fails (and It’s Not the Model)

September 19, 2026 · 11 min · Hanh Pham

WSL2 and tmux: Clean Clipboard Integration Without the Latency or Garbage Characters

September 12, 2026 · 13 min · Hanh Pham

Apple M4 vs Huawei Ascend 950: Two Theories of the AI Chip

September 9, 2026 · 14 min · Hanh Pham

tmux Panes & Windows: The Bindings That Actually Matter

September 8, 2026 · 9 min · Hanh Pham

Huawei’s Ascend 950 & DaVinci v3: How China Built a Competitive AI Chip Without EUV

September 7, 2026 · 24 min · Hanh Pham

Making a Multi-Step SQL Server Script’s Rollback Actually Trustworthy

September 6, 2026 · 7 min · Hanh Pham

When a Wildcard Join Multiplies Your Data (and How to Actually Fix It)

September 5, 2026 · 9 min · Hanh Pham

Go 1.27 Is Quietly Load-Bearing

September 4, 2026 · 12 min · Hanh Pham

Designing an Order Workflow: Putting the Patterns Together

September 3, 2026 · 7 min · Hanh Pham

Agentic Coding Assistants, and Why I Don’t Let Them Grade Their Own Work

September 2, 2026 · 8 min · Hanh Pham

When Two-Phase Commit Isn’t the Answer: Sagas for Microservice Transactions

September 1, 2026 · 9 min · Hanh Pham

August  13

How I Started Learning Reverse Engineering (and What I Wish I Knew First)

August 29, 2026 · 7 min · Hanh Pham

Anti-Debugging Tricks: When the Binary Fights Back

August 27, 2026 · 5 min · Hanh Pham

Custom VMs in CTF: When the Binary Speaks Its Own Language

August 25, 2026 · 6 min · Hanh Pham

Your First Crackme: A Walkthrough from strings to Flag

August 22, 2026 · 6 min · Hanh Pham

REST, gRPC, GraphQL, or a Broker: Picking Your Communication Tech

August 20, 2026 · 9 min · Hanh Pham

Ghidra in 30 Minutes: Reading Assembly Without Hating It

August 18, 2026 · 7 min · Hanh Pham

Debugging Microservices: Where Did That Request Go?

August 15, 2026 · 10 min · Hanh Pham

Versioning Microservices Without Breaking Everyone

August 13, 2026 · 10 min · Hanh Pham

Running Microservices Locally Without Docker Compose Hell

August 11, 2026 · 9 min · Hanh Pham

Deploying Microservices Without the Fear

August 8, 2026 · 9 min · Hanh Pham

Database Per Service: The Pattern That’s Harder Than It Sounds

August 6, 2026 · 10 min · Hanh Pham

Service Mesh: When You Actually Need One (and When You Don’t)

August 4, 2026 · 9 min · Hanh Pham

Go Performance Profiling with pprof: Finding the Slow Part

August 1, 2026 · 8 min · Hanh Pham

July  6

The Five Ways Microservices Talk to Each Other

July 30, 2026 · 9 min · Hanh Pham

What Actually Makes a Good Microservice Boundary

July 28, 2026 · 8 min · Hanh Pham

Should You Even Use Microservices?

July 25, 2026 · 9 min · Hanh Pham

Caching Geospatial Queries Without a Specialized Geo Database

July 23, 2026 · 6 min · Hanh Pham

Self-Hosting a Routing Engine Instead of Paying Per API Call

July 21, 2026 · 7 min · Hanh Pham

Syntax Highlighting with Hugo

July 16, 2026 · 1 min · Hanh Pham