Mr. 0x1 articles - 69 total
I Got Sick of Getting Rugged, So I Built a Rug-Pull Detection Engine in Rust
I built Rugrat — a real-time EVM bytecode scanner that detects rug pulls in ~3 microseconds across 5 chains. No source code needed. Here's why I built it and what I learned about adversarial smart contracts.
How I Found $300,000 Worth of Secrets in a Download Button
A tale of curiosity, incompetence, and why you should never trust a software engineer who makes more than you.
I Replaced My LLM Orchestrator with Plant Biology — Here's What Happened
How SMESH signal diffusion transformed a dark web OSINT tool from sequential pipeline to emergent swarm intelligence
Optimizing LLM Context Windows: Reducing Token Usage by 40% with TOON and Rust
A technical deep dive into implementing the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to serve the Token-Oriented Object Notation (TOON) format, achieving significant cost reductions for LLM inference.
The Infinite Buffer: Why AI Agents Are Rebuilding the Lisp Machine
Visual IDEs are a trap for AI Agents. Why the future of coding is headless, textual, and looks a lot like a Lisp Machine.
I Asked My Dog How Trees Talk. Now I'm Rethinking LLM Orchestration.
How a walk in the woods led to building a plant-inspired coordination protocol that outperforms LangChain by 10,000x
I wrote a Vibe Check for your code (Runs on a Potato 🥔)
A 149KB static binary that scans your codebase for unfinished vibes like TODOs and hardcoded secrets.
Project Corsa: The Untold Story of TypeScript 7 (A Git Forensic Thriller)
A forensic deep-dive into the TypeScript 7 rewrite using git history.
Doc-First Development: Because 'We'll Document It Later' Is a Lie
After 20+ years in software, I've seen every approach. Spec-first is the one that actually works. Here's how.
When I Took Numba to the Dojo: A Battle Royale Against Rust and CUDA
Expanding on @zenoguy's Numba experiments by throwing Rust and CUDA into the ring. Who wins when we push 20 million elements to their limits?
Building a Blazing Fast CI Engine in Rust (That Dogfoods Itself!) 🦀⚡
Meet Oxide CI: A modern, local-first CI/CD engine built for performance and developer experience.
VOPR: The Multiverse Machine That Kills Production Bugs
How deterministic simulation testing lets you control time, fork reality, and hunt heisenbugs like a cosmic bounty hunter.
The Most Underrated Tool in Your Dev Toolbox: Pre-Commit Hooks (Yes, That 20-Year-Old Git Feature)
Look, I've been slinging code for longer than I care to admit, and one thing never fails to blow my...
Death by 1,000 Defaults: The Slow-Motion Car Crash Nobody Saw Coming
How harmless defaults compound into bloat, bills, and entropy — and how to fight back.
Intent-Driven Development: Define the System Before You Write the Code
How I architected a complete event-driven system with 122 events, 8 RFCs, and 82 GitHub...
A data-driven look at "The Vibe Tax" and why technical debt might not be AI's fault.
TL;DR: I analyzed 300 GitHub repos and 18,000+ commit messages. Pre-AI code has more debt signals,...
The Art, the Politics, and the Final Truth of Software Development
We are not engineers. We are court painters in the palace of a mad emperor named Progress, paid in...
Cult of Tiger
More than a database. More than a tool. A framework for the soul of systems. “There are three...
Personas Are the Missing Link in Your Requirements Docs (and Test Strategy)
“Great developers don’t just build features — they build for someone.” Most requirement documents...
🎯 Dear Scammers: You Picked the Wrong Developer
The Message That Started It All Yesterday, I received this gem: Amazon Safety Recall...
Advanced Testing: Misunderstood but Essential (and a Little Weird)
Let’s be honest: most software teams treat testing like flossing. Everyone nods along in agreement,...
The Software Is Always Broken (And AI Is Just Broken Faster)
After twenty years of testing software, I’ve come to a simple, devastating conclusion: all software...
The TypeScript Tax: A Performance Time Bomb in Your Tech Stack 💣
You’ve heard the pitch. It’s seductive, wrapped in the comforting blanket of "developer...
LLMs Aren’t the Problem. Your Prompts Are.
“I don’t care how the code got into your IDE. I care whether it respects the repo like the rest of...
AI Is Just Another Excel: What the Spreadsheet Revolution Teaches Us About the Future of Work
“High school-trained secretaries are out; college-trained specialists are in.” — 1985 U.S. Labor...
🧠 The Silence That Shipped Nothing: A Psychological Postmortem of My Fake Startup
"We replaced our workflows with Whispr. What we lost in productivity, we gained in existential...
When Swagger Lies: Fixing API Drift Before It Breaks You
Your Swagger spec says one thing. Your code says another. Jira has its own version of reality....
The Complexity Conundrum: How Overengineering Slows Your Startup’s Pivot 🚀
Introduction: When Code Becomes a Roadblock Imagine a startup codebase so tangled that...
Promptcraft: How to Talk to Robots (So They Don’t Make You a Sandwich When You Meant a Website)
We’ve entered a new age—an era where human language, once considered too imprecise to control logic...
The Overengineer’s Manifesto: Saying Hello the Hard Way
Project Complexity Score: 1,417 lines of code & docs, 264 function/class/logic blocks—just to...