Mr. 0x1 articles - 48 total
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...
Vibe Coding with Intent: A Tester’s Perspective
There’s a lot of noise right now around vibe coding. People are generating entire apps off vibes,...
Godfingering vs. Dogfooding: A Tale of Two Dev Cultures
"Works in Postman" is not a badge of honor. There are two kinds of engineering cultures: those who...
Using Grammatical Evolution to Discover Test Payloads: A New Frontier in API Testing
"What if your test cases evolved on their own, like digital bacteria, probing your API for...
Merge Me If You Can — The Art of the Pull Request Ego
“It’s not about catching bugs. It’s about catching egos slipping.” — Probably You Welcome to the...
Framework Famous, RFC Clueless: Why Developers Need to Dig Deeper
Developers today are geniuses—just ask them. They know every framework, every library, and every...
Operation Golden Arches: A Playful Hacker's Deep Dive into McDonald's Deal Exploits
So, last week, I was your run-of-the-mill researcher, sniffing out security flaws and generally...
The Art of Code: Rediscovering Creativity in Programming
In today's digital landscape, where software development often revolves around routine tasks and...
Your Code Lints Great, but Runs Like Garbage: The Curious Case of Misplaced Priorities in Software Development
In today's fast-paced software world, developers and teams often find themselves entranced by...
Code Less, Create More: How AI Freed Us from the Debugging Dungeon
Imagine a world where your code writes itself—almost. Gone are the days when we’d burn the midnight...
Assembly FTW: Why All Code Is Created Equal (But Assembly Is Still King)
Software development has had more glow-ups than your favorite influencer—from punch cards to...
Building a Distributed Microservice in Rust
Overview This project demonstrates how to split CPU-bound tasks (like prime factorization)...
Cryptocurrency Rug-Pull Scams: A Comprehensive Analysis
1. Technical Deep Dive How Rug-Pulls Occur Programmatically: Rug-pull scams typically...
Mastering Git Hooks: A Cheat Sheet for CI/CD Ninjas
Git hooks are like secret agents hidden in your repositories—quietly waiting to spring into action....
Hack & Test: Merging Mutation, Property, Hypothesis, and Chaos Testing in Penetration Testing
I've always believed that the best security testing isn’t about following a strict checklist—it’s...
From Code to Capital: The Hacker Mindset Revolutionizing Algorithmic Trading
Imagine a world where the elusive figure, once known only for breaching digital fortresses in dimly...
Evolution of MVP Development: From Early Best Practices to Modern Startups
Building a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) quickly is a core startup strategy, but history shows that...
Correct by Construction: Building Software Right the First Time
Ever fix a bug at 2 AM and think, "There must be a better way to do this!"? If so, you're not alone....
High-Confidence Testing with Mutation Analysis and Diverse Test Data
Modern tech companies – especially in high-stakes domains like finance and healthcare – are embracing...
API Design‑First Companies: Strategies, Impact, and Financial Performance
API design‑first (or “API‑first”) companies prioritize designing their services as well-defined APIs...
Confidence Through Diversity: A Deep Meta-Analysis of Property Testing in DivvySim
Repository: divvysim Property testing has revolutionized my approach to quality assurance in...
Emotional Intelligence in Tech: The Most Important Code a Manager Can Write
In the high-stakes world of software engineering and technical teams, there’s a long-standing debate:...